This movie is a real curiosity. It's dead. I don't mean it's bad. A lot of bad movies are fairly throbbing with life. Mannequin is dead. The wake lasts 1 1/2 hours, and then we can leave the theater.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Mar 19, 2019

A pallid shopfloor fairytale with absolutely no magic to speak of.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 19, 2019

There`s some solid talent here, but Gottlieb's overemphatic direction reduces them all to broad caricature -- the kind of crazed mugging that isn't often seen outside the boundaries of Saturday morning kiddie shows.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 19, 2019

It's as if the film makers had the aspirations of classy old-style Hollywood hacks, but not their tricks: They don't know in which dummies the gold is buried.

| Mar 19, 2019

Mannequin is as stiff and spiritless as its title suggests.

| Mar 26, 2009

A film about, by and for dummies.

| Feb 9, 2006

In place of a real story, there is just the spectacle of stock characters being put through their paces to fill up the time. Several of those stock characters play upon racial and sexual stereotypes, and a few are drawn along obnoxiously homophobic lines.

| May 20, 2003

What follows is some sort of combination of a teen-age Bewitched and a Police Academy for department stores.

| Jan 1, 2000

You could say the plot thickens, but that would be overstating things in this simple-minded, screwball love story.

| Jan 1, 2000

First-time director Michael Gottlieb proves a graceless sitcom talent, and McCarthy's reduction to chipmunkery hardly qualifies as a significant career stretch.

| Jan 1, 2000