Mr. Deeds: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

A remake so bad it will make your gums bleed. Orphanage fires are funnier.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

40

Pretty awful, but teen Sandler fans may like it.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Film4

The end result isn't dreadful, but it is patchy.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Derek Adams Time Out

The star and his numbskull cronies piss on Capra's grave with acrid insincerity.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Dequina Film Threat

40

Sandler barely expends any energy trotting out the "average dude who shakes up stodgy high society" schtick, and director Steven Brill and scripter Tim Herlihy follow lazy suit.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs

25

Anyone with an IQ over 85 should stay away.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Susan Michals FilmStew.com

Peter Gallagher must've been hard up for cash.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

50

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Full Review » 8 years ago
Stefan Birgir Stefansson sbs.is

63

Just another Sandler movie, nothing more, nothing less.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jim Shelby Palo Alto Weekly

50

This is a remake which will vaguely satisfy the Sandler faithful and have Capra fans gritting their teeth.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Empire Magazine

40

How could Adam Sandler, of all people, remake Capra? Well, shoddily, as it happens.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

30

...Perpetuates [Sandler's] penchant for idiotic, schoolboy humor, misunderstood-nice-guy characters, and plots which insult the intelligence of anyone over 12.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Frank Ochieng Movie Eye

50

The only saving grace about Mr. Deeds is its functioning as a wise and timely cliche': money can't buy everything--especially for a clunky comedy with no spirit or no spark.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rebecca Murray About.com

67

The film delivers as promised on most levels; however, it does help to be an Adam Sandler fan to begin with.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jane Crowther ViewLondon

20

When you've already made something as execrable and universally loathed as Little Nicky, why stop there?
Full Review » 10 years ago
Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall

40

A very stupid film that's almost watchable but doesn't really have any reason to exist.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert L.A. Weekly

No amount of spastic-colon jokes, cartoon violence or good-buddy cameos (Al Sharpton, John McEnroe) can distract from the fact that Gary Cooper [Sandler] ain't.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan

The plot is moth-eaten, the jokes lame, the action sequences idiotic to disgusting, and the whole adds up (or subtracts down) to a complete waste of time.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Neil Smith BBC

40

There's a price to pay for the guilty pleasure Steven Brill's film affords -- a relentless process of dumbing down that tells the audience it's cool to be a doofus.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Clint Morris Moviehole

50

Sandler's poorest film to date.
Full Review » 10 years ago
D.K. Holm DVDTalk.com

Capra's Deeds wasn't all that good to begin with, and modernized casting here doesn't improve on it.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Luis Martinez Cinenganos

60

Boba. Sosa e innocua hasta morir...
Full Review » 10 years ago
Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com

17

An unfunny, careless piece of trash riddled with directorial, editing and acting mistakes.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile

Perfunctory is the word.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jon Niccum Lawrence Journal-World

50

Mr. Deeds has more impromptu punchouts than a Source Awards get-together.
Full Review » 10 years ago