Mrs. Doubtfire: Critic Reviews

The dress, the mask and Mrs. Doubtfire's gentility are inherently limiting, but nothing holds Mr. Williams back when he's on a roll.

You will laugh till your ribs ache -- not because director Chris Columbus of the "Home Alone" movies has a gift for farce, which he does, but because Williams is to funny what the Energizer Bunny is to batteries. He keeps going and going and going.

Williams has to break out of a second-rate "Tootsie" imitation, ankles clamped in pathos and face covered in latex. He pulls it off in the end, but it's not pretty.

The film is not as amusing as the premise, and there were long stretches when I'd had quite enough of Mrs. Doubtfire.

Although overly sappy in places and probably 20 minutes too long, this Robin Williams-in-drag vehicle provides the comic a slick surface for doing his shtick, within a story possessing broad family appeal.

In terms of plot, the film is rather feeble, but sometimes there's more to a movie than story, and this is one of those rare occasions when all the other elements pull together and lift the production.

The greater story is sacrificed for schticky gags about a guy dressing as an old woman.

I've rarely laughed so much at a movie I generally disliked.

Modern comedy classic w/Robin Williams in and out of drag.

spectacular

Chris Columbus' only good movie.

Sit-com stuff, then, with laboured farcical interludes, and a mushy post-feminist sensibility. Funny notwithstanding.

A genuinely funny comedy.

An enjoyable, if artificially weepy, comedy.

One of Robin William's funniest films to date...an absolute beauty!

It is what it is, and frankly I don't like it.