The Beverly Hillbillies: Critic Reviews

You'll hate yourself for enjoying this, but enjoy it you will.

Like the old show, the movie glides by quickly and pleasantly. If it's nothing fancy, it's mighty sweet.

Imagine the dumbest half-hour sitcom you've ever seen, spin it out to 93 minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you have this movie. It's appalling. It's not even really a good version of whatever it was that made the TV series appealing.

Four writers worked on the script, and they all should hang their heads in shame.

It's thin stuff, but the ingratiating naivete of the characters and the aw-shucks friendliness of the cast are disarming, and it becomes easy to just let this go down as a country tune with some moonshine on the side.

Perhaps the clearest evidence of the dearth of original ideas in Hollywood is the constant need to regurgitate old, worn-out television series.

Tomlin finds the humor and the heart in these hillbillies. The rest is just crude oil.

With films like these, it's a wonder studios still think it's a good idea to regurgitate the past.

This big-screen expansion boasts one of the richest comic ensembles in recent memory, working well under Penelope Spheeris... About all that's missing is a point.

An endearing revival for TV's favourite hicks.

Director Spheeris should be ashamed of herself.

Unbearable.

It's fitting that The Beverly Hillbillies is based on a popular sitcom, given that the film feels perfectly suited to the small screen.

Eee-hah! But Granny madeover?

Annoying director, pointless project.

Was this really necessary?

You knew it would be awful and it surely did not disappoint. The few stray chuckles seem to arrive by accident.