Saving Silverman Critic Reviews

A standard-issue numskull comedy that aims low but is high in energy.Read the full review

It's basically a cheerful slob job, one of those slapped-together features so often embraced by teenagers with more disposable income than discernible taste.Read the full review

The kind of comedy that takes the fun out of stupidity.Read the full review

Not just stupid, but brain dead.Read the full review

Does occasionally rise out of the sewer of its self-imposed idiocy, ascending in brief moments from utter witlessness to half-witlessness, mostly thanks to the loose comic byplay between Mr. Black and Mr. Zahn.Read the full review

Let's accentuate the positive: Saving Silverman really stinks. No, really. It's bad. Awful.Read the full review

Misbegotten, unimaginative buddy pic.Read the full review

So bad in so many different ways that perhaps you should see it, as an example of the lowest slopes of the bell-shaped curve.Read the full review

Peet is always worth watching, but the role does her no favors, and the script, involving a kidnapping and a surprise cameo by Neil Diamond - you heard me - smacks of desperation beyond saving.Read the full review