This bad-taste comedy about bowling champs, from the dudes who brought you Dumb and Dumber, decides to go scummy and scummier by blatantly ripping off several scenes...

| Jun 14, 2022

...a pervasively uneven comedy that just isn't able to overcome its various deficiencies...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 18, 2014

It's Bill Murray who easily swipes the picture -- he's at his unctuous best as Ernie McCracken, an oily bowler with an ego as enormous as his libido.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2014

Kingpin makes inspired comedy by channeling the Weber spirit-and the humble reality of the circuit-through the frame of an inspirational sports movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2014

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

The combination of the overkill factor and a basic mean-spiritedness finally sinks it for me.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2007

I found the sleazy comedy more tedious than watching an actual bowling match.

| Original Score: C | Oct 9, 2007

Ends up with a seven-ten split between hilariously tasteless and just plain distasteful.

| Original Score: C | Aug 4, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2007

Funny, outrageous, vulgar. The only bowling comedy in memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2006

Crude and hilarious

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 15, 2004

It's funny in parts in a tasteless, Farrelly Brothers way. Freedy Johnston's incidental music provides one of the 90s most pleasing scores.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2003