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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Some of the gags don't work, and yet I laughed at the Farrellys' audacity in trying them. And the humor isn't just gags and punch lines, but one accomplished comic performance after another.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

With maybe 25 belly laughs, the brazenly crude Kingpin is often uproarious, but be forewarned that its creators apparently conceived it underneath a limbo bar. How looow can a funny guilty pleasure go?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: D | Jul 26, 1996