Mr. Magoo: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

RottenTomatoes: 27 reviews

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Lawrence Van Gelder New York Times (Top Critic)

20

Incomplete as a cartoon, indecisive as comedy, halting as adventure, Mr. Magoo turns out to be a shortsighted project.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Wloszczyna USA Today (Top Critic)

25

If you ever wanted to know how awful a Jackie Chan movie would be without Jackie Chan, this is it.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Here's where I'm supposed to suggest how the film might be better. But I can't think of anything to say other than to make the film again, with different writers and a new director.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

13

Mr. Magoo is transcendently bad. It soars above ordinary badness as the eagle outreaches the fly. There is not a laugh in it. Not one.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

If you really hate your kids, pack them off to this slapdash farce, whose only funny moment is the PC disclaimer at the end about the Disney company's humanist concern for blind people.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

By turns frenetic and flat-footed, Mr. Magoo is an uninspired live-action comedy.
Full Review » 4 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

25

Mr. Magoo is not just an insult to the blind and near-blind, it's an insult to every human being who has the misfortune to suffer through this dreadfully unfunny, 90 minute atrocity.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Ken Fox TV Guide's Movie Guide

75

Instantly forgettable but fun while it lasts.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film4

Nielsen, an actor who is either brilliant or abysmal depending on the material, veers towards the latter.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Clint Morris Moviehole

20

Stinkier than a visit to the local tip
Full Review » 7 years ago
Mark Sells Oregon Herald

20

Full Review » 8 years ago
Randy Shulman Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)

40

Full Review » 8 years ago
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette

20

Full Review » 8 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

20

The film is almost unbearable.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

0

Full Review » 10 years ago
Madeleine Williams Cinematter

13

Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Vice Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Among those who will be insulted by this painfully unfunny comedy are women, the elderly and members of several ethnicities, as well as moviegoers with even the slightest modicum of taste.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Oz eFilmCritic.com

20

Avoid. Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Stack San Francisco Chronicle

25

Only a couple of good gags in its pileup of otherwise lame jokes keep the production from being an unqualified stinker.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Bob McCabe Empire Magazine

20

When even the outtakes you see over the end titles don't raise a single titter, you know you're in trouble.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle

0

It's a mess best left to the nitrate ashes of forgotten film and television history.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews

13

Hopefully, this picture will force producers to think harder about which subjects have promise and which do not.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

20

One star, for principle.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Guy MacPherson Apollo Guide

22

I grew up with Mr. Magoo. I watched Mr. Magoo. I loved Mr. Magoo. Leslie Nielsen, you're no Mr. Magoo.
Full Review » 12 years ago