Envy (2004) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A weirdly airless disaster, a turkey so insistently DOA that the dialogue serves as its own epitaph.Read the full review
Black somehow feels reigned in; shaved and barbered, he's lost his anarchic passion and is merely playing a comic role instead of transforming it into a personal mission.Read the full review
Leaves you with the dismaying sensation that Levinson, who should probably be off making his own version of ''The Player,'' has instead crafted a comedy of self-loathing, burying himself in a movie that deserves to be Vapoorized.Read the full review
A woeful little comedy that runs out of steam shortly after its opening sequence. Read the full review
It's remarkably appropriate that Envy is about turds, because that's what the movie is. Read the full review
Environmentalists are up in arms. "Where did the shit go?" they want to know. The answer is painfully obvious: into the screenplay. Read the full review
The film is neither fish nor fowl nor some arresting new entity, but a lumpish coagulation of conflicting impulses and unrealized gestures.Read the full review
The laughs tend to come in fits and starts, built around individual set pieces rather than being generated organically out of the storytelling. Read the full review
Squandered in foolish horseplay and on a story that zigzags so far out of control that it feels as if the screenwriter, Steve Adams, pasted together a bunch of zany notions in a frantic search for confusion. Read the full review
In short, every element suggests Envy ought to be amusing, but the only comparably disastrous movie in recent memory involves Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, and a rapping retarded man. Read the full review
