The Mod Squad: Critic Reviews

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Lawrence Van Gelder New York Times (Top Critic)

10

At the end, theater exit signs are welcome beacons.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Justine Elias Village Voice (Top Critic)

If the makers of the new Mod Squad had really studied their source material, they would have noticed how weak it was to begin with, and ended this mess after 60, rather than 94, minutes of pain.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

The Mod Squad has an intriguing cast, a director who knows how to use his camera and a lot of sly humor. Shame about the story.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

An exercise in robotic filmmaking.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

Full Review » 5 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

This latest bigscreen retrofitting of a vintage TV series (1968-73) feels like the most shameless effort yet in the renewed exploitation of the youth market.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Mary Elizabeth Williams Salon.com (Top Critic)

Is it possible to try too hard without making any effort whatsoever? Because that seems to be the one slim accomplishment of The Mod Squad.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

This is the kind of movie that isn't even worth renting when it comes out on video because, with the possible exception of Michael Lerner and Omar Epps dancing to show tunes, you've seen it all before.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

70

A great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet but possessed of just enough gravity to allow us to take its people rather than its old TV series premise seriously.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Sandra Contreras TV Guide's Movie Guide

38

No one expects much from movie adaptations of TV shows but complete incoherence and boredom is a bit too much to bear.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

75

Mindless, stylish fun.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

25

Who cares?
Full Review » 7 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

30

Otherwise dependable young actors like Danes, Ribisi and Epps seem lost in one-dimensional and unconvincing characters.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jim Shelby Palo Alto Weekly

50

This is a pristine example of incoherent storyline mixed with poor editing and limp writing.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

30

Writer Scott Silver also directed the film, but obviously had no idea how to convey to his actors any sense of enthusiasm or energy.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Tom Meek Film Threat

20

Add another one to the scrap heap of trendy, nostalgic, 60's and 70's TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration starved minds in Hollywood.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

25

The first big-screen resurrection aimed squarely at a generation that probably never heard of, much less watched, the original TV show.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

20

Yeah, let's make a movie for the kids ... based on a TV show they've never even heard of.
Full Review » 10 years ago
David Noh Film Journal International

Nearly every scene is a guaranteed hoot-fest.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Bob Graham San Francisco Chronicle

50

Plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Wade Major Boxoffice Magazine

50

The film simply doesn't deliver anything sufficiently remarkable to distinguish itself from sturdier competition.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Tom Meek Boston Phoenix

Add another to the scrap heap of hip '60s and '70s TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration-starved minds in Hollywood.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jim Chastain Norman Transcript

I can scarcely remember a single film which was less enjoyable to watch than The Mod Squad.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jon Popick Planet Sick-Boy

The film has the look of a Levi's button-fly loose-fitting wide-legged baggy-crotch jeans commercial -- all edgy and alternative.
Full Review » 12 years ago