Gondry works ridiculously hard to transform his helming debut into a cinematic playground of tricks and fantasy, which doesn't always mesh with Kaufman's self-conscious probing of damaged people.

| Original Score: C | Jul 11, 2021

I appreciate the fact that Human Nature tackles more subject matter than it can coherently explore in one movie. Ambition is good.

| Feb 27, 2020

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 15, 2009

[Kaufman and Gondry] dive right into the subject [of sex] to lay bare the pain of it, and to have us laugh at it.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 8, 2009

Human Nature cleverly satirizes our most ridiculous- and in many ways, our most tragic- impulses, and finds a unique balance between light-hearted humor and abject farce.

| Jul 2, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A ton of cute ideas do not a satisfying movie make.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 16, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2003

| Original Score: 84/100 | Jan 18, 2003

Plays as a sophomoric exercise in the art of satire.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 30, 2002

Risky, totally insane, at times brilliant, and absolutely original, Human Nature is a trip. A wonderfully wacky, weird satirical comedy that is hit and miss.

| Dec 27, 2002

| Original Score: A- | Dec 17, 2002

Although a few moments are hilarious, this would-be romp remains laboriously earthbound when it should be swinging gaily through the trees.

| Dec 9, 2002

A little watered down Spike Jonze has to be entertaining some of the time, so this isn't a total loss.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Surreal comedy explores the differences between man and the animals -- and finds humans wanting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2002

One of a kind, a fresh comedy of ideas, and a daft, deft poke in the funny bone.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2002

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2002

Offers viewers a chance to laugh at themselves.

| Aug 2, 2002

... laughing, you can forgive the self-conscious mucking around with the metaphysical... [but] you wouldn't want to call it's cribbed iteration of Rousseau brilliant.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 29, 2002

Tries for both civilized wit and primitive joy -- and mostly misses both.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 20, 2002