Incident at Loch Ness: Critic Reviews

A riddle wrapped in a hoax stuffed inside a crock.

Blatantly comic characters undercut the credibility established by Mr. Herzog's naturalistic performance, and sink the horror premise as quickly as it surfaces.

We realize with increasing dismay that Loch Ness is a movie about the bald, weaselly Penn and not about Herzog at all.

The moviemaking in-jokes are often terrifically funny.

As much a farcical take on the Blair Witch school as a resonant yet irreverent argument against the homogenizing entertainment industry by which Penn makes his fabulous living.

Tedious faux documentary.

Watching the movie is an entertaining exercise in forensic viewing, and the insidious thing is, even if it is a con, who is the conner and who is the connee?

Clever and amusing mockumentary.

[Penn's] oafish 'character' only manages a few guffaws and a handful of chuckles, and his movie is the same.

Behind the yanked curtain, there's a very funny study in Hollywood megalomania featuring a very funny performance by a decidedly non-Hollywood monomaniac.

For all its clever antics, this movie leaves the audience out of the central joke for way too long.

While Herzog demonstrates here that he's a perfectly good sport, one can't help think that his time would be far better spent making more films rather than parodying himself in such inconsequential efforts as this.

An amusing mock documentary that spends considerable energy artfully trying to make you believe it's real as real can be.

Mildly comical for those familiar with (and fond of) adventurous German auteur Werner Herzog.

Reaches only monumental levels of dumbness and lame comical moments.

...Herzog and Penn don't challenge [the Loch Ness] myth. They are out to create their own. And they almost pull it off.

A generally empty, if fitfully amusing, experience.

Herzog se revela um convincente astro do genero "acao/terror" neste filme que, alem das muitas risadas, ainda oferece uma reveladora visao dos bastidores de Hollywood.

We fall prey to a series of sleights-of-hand that keep us wondering what the joke is -- and more importantly, who's in on it.

While not quite on par with some other movies and mockumentaries about showbiz, Incident at Loch Ness is right up there with its head above water.

A truly original work, and a very cheeky one at that filled with end-to-end laughter. It plays off Herzog's own legend as a behind-the-camera wild card.

too much of a one-note concept to make the entertainment value lift much above lake level

Pathetic self-parody.

In addition to being a funny movie about the movie business, it's a cheeky, ingenious motion picture puzzle.