Welcome to Mooseport Critic Reviews

Gene Hackman, bristling with wit and energy, is at his amusing best in the robust comedy.Read the full review

Hackman could charm the chrome off a trailer hitch. Romano is more of the earnest, aw-shucks, sincere, well-meaning kind of guy whose charm is inner and only peeks out occasionally. They work well together here.Read the full review

David Mamet handled such small-town whimsy better in 2000's "State and Main." Hackman could play his role in his sleep, but Romano IS asleep. Result: Welcome to Mildport, and that's being kind. Read the full review

But the jury is still out on Romano's future in movies. Hackman blows him off the screen.Read the full review

A terminally mild attempt to revive the populist political comedy pioneered by Frank Capra in the 1930's. Read the full review

Compounding the sense of predictability and deja vu is the presence of well-known TV actors portraying the sorts of characters they've perfected on the small screen.Read the full review

Lacks the antic energy and inspired imagination that might have put this over as a sharp-witted community comedy in the Preston Sturges vein. Read the full review

It's a disappointingly limp small-town farce played several shades too broadly by a cast that has done better work elsewhere. Read the full review

Welcome to Mooseport's satirical edge is dull and pitted, the screenplay is overlong and uninteresting, the comedy is soft and shapeless, and the actors perform like they're on a sit com.Read the full review