Envy (2004) Critic Reviews

One of those cinematic curiosities that almost always fade quickly, but that will usually find a devoted cult audience once it hits that peculiar Elysian Field known as the aftermarket. Read the full review

Envy is in the unenviable position of saddling two of Hollywood's most talented comic actors with a script that doesn't do them justice. Read the full review

It's remarkably appropriate that Envy is about turds, because that's what the movie is. 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

A woeful little comedy that runs out of steam shortly after its opening sequence. 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

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

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

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