Idle Hands: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

Dumb, blood-soaked, undeniably kinetic teen Guignol bash!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lawrence Van Gelder New York Times (Top Critic)

Even pretensions toward the humorous and hip cannot save this blood-drenched film from its innate tastelessness!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

A heavy-handed disappointment saturated in tired movie blood.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jane Sumner Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

Creepy in all the wrong ways.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Monica Eng Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

A major buzzkill!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

Excruciatingly unfunny!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

Too calculated by half and underwritten by about as much, as witlessly unaware of its faltering sense of comedy as its stoner-dude heroes are of everyday reality.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)

A disastrous attempt to mix comedy and horror!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Sean Means Film.com (Top Critic)

Proof that when moral crusaders come to hang Hollywood, Hollywood will supply the rope!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

Its mixture of slapstick humour and gore -- produced by the flying fingers -- gives new meaning to the phrase digital effects.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mary Elizabeth Williams Salon.com (Top Critic)

It's a bad thriller and a bad comedy!
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

25

I admit to having chuckled once; that's why the movie gets a generous one star instead of none.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

50

Too precariously straddles the line between fun and cheese, often going a bit too far over the top.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

60

Ganha pontos pelo perverso senso de humor, mas acaba soando demais como uma copia de "Evil Dead 2" para merecer uma recomendacao.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Ron Wells Film Threat

60

Were you expecting a teen remake of The Hands of Orlac? Don't hold your breath.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

25

It jumps from one path to the next without any sense of continuity.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Andreas Samuelson Slasherpool

80

Stupid, silly fun with a decent amount of gore and heavy dose of teen humor
Full Review » 8 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

42

All of these people can make better movies than this, and most of them have.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jim Shelby Palo Alto Weekly

25

Is it a spoof, or is it just stupid ... or is it a stupid spoof?
Full Review » 9 years ago
Kim Newman Sight and Sound

It's an infalliby funny gambit...
Full Review » 9 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

13

The attempts to extract comedy from this grim raw material are leaden, blood-soaked disasters.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Boston Phoenix

Idle Hands may be the devil's playground, but empty minds are the venue for this time waster.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

25

When it's over, you may feel like cutting off your own hand for having paid good money at the ticket counter.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews

38

Has all the old jokes you've seen before, recycled one more time.
Full Review » 12 years ago