The Producers: Critic Reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 154 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

In theory, what's not to like? In reality, the whole schmear.
Full Review » 6 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

30

Uma Thurman as a would-be actress is the one bit of genuine radiance in this aggressively and pointlessly shiny, noisy spectacle.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

63

Enough is enough. Somebody should just stop remaking The Producers.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

So how good is the movie of the musical of the movie? The answer is: It's pretty good.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Not so much a film as an awkwardly framed souvenir of the Broadway hit musical, The Producers needs a live audience like a candle needs oxygen.
Full Review » 6 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

There's no business like show business, and the musical Producers' considerable success showed the original movie to have been prophetic -- of itself.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

If you have seen the play, especially if you've seen it with the original cast, treasure the memory and protect it. The movie will attack it like a virus.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

75

... a kitschy celebration of all things Mel.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

50

Ms. Stroman's efforts to open up the play lack imagination, and all the musical numbers probably worked better on stage.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

63

It may not be great, but it is a movie.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

The new movie is a success, that I know. How much of a success, I cannot be sure. Someone who has seen the original once or twice, or never, would be a better judge.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

Very little of the stage show's fizziness has found its way into a strangely pallid-looking picture.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

The jokes are in its tackiness, and gauchery, and raspberry-inducing send-up of Broadway traditions. On that level, the movie works fine -- and is a whole lot cheaper for the ticket buyer.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

100

If this film were any funnier, the world would explode.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

60

[T]he most recent Producers is a clone of a clone, and what it adds in song and dance it loses in brevity and, as is so often the case, wit.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

The small, silly details that made you laugh in spite of yourself are only garish and hammy on a screen the size of a mobile trailer.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

With hundreds of performances in New York and London under their belts, Lane and Broderick have their characterizations down cold.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

25

Mildness and blandness/ Mugging like madness/ Who knew that Rent would win this fight?/ Murdering a genre's just not all right!
Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and Gary Beach have their singing, dancing and kvetching in the Broadway smash The Producers immortalized on film.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

The stage show veterans have done these roles so many times, they're more than second nature, and also a little stale.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

First-time film director Susan Stroman has been painfully faithful in bringing her multi-Tony-winning Broadway musical to the big screen, at full volume and as theatrical as ever.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

Watching The Producers is simply exhausting.
Full Review » 6 years ago
David Edelstein Slate (Top Critic)

The stage performances haven't been scaled down: Everything is pitched to the second balcony. And Mel Brooks' material -- especially the retro queeny stereotypes -- is excruciatingly dated.
Full Review » 6 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

The Producers is a movie based on a play based on a movie about a play. And that's probably the funniest thing about it.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

The Producers is simply a missed opportunity.
Full Review » 6 years ago