Fraser’s lab puppy phase is still one of the most endearing modes of anyone in the modern studio system.

| Sep 20, 2022

...an irresistible premise that's generally employed to entertaining (if somewhat erratic) effect...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2020

Blast is finally a squandered opportunity, a lot of situation with very little comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 3, 2018

Blast From the Past saves its best for first.

| Mar 21, 2014

Fraser is the sweet, goofy engine that drives this movie. The script doesn't do enough with his reactions to a world that bears little relation to the Cold War planet Adam has been told about, but Fraser still manages to suggest volumes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2014

Garish and not funny enough, Wilson's shapeless satire plods on, squandering its nice premise and its appealing actors. Miraculously, Fraser has a force field around him and manages to radiate energy in this comic black hole.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2014

Thanks to a clever script, tight direction, a first-rate cast and the dynamite combination of Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone, Blast from the Past blows away the recent crop of romantic comedies.

| Mar 21, 2014

That's a relatively clever set-up for what's become a familiar genre: the time-displacement comedy, in which we get a kick out of viewing our era through another era's eyes. But this movie's eyes, Adam's, are awfully twinkly and not too focused.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 21, 2014

Despite its faintly mechanical construction, Blast From The Past is very classy, and the improbable comic duo of Spacek and Walken provide the manic edge. Silverstone is good, engagingly grouchy but Fraser is indeed a blast.

| Mar 21, 2014

Unfortunately Mr. Fraser comes off as a forlorn, outsize Pee Wee Herman.

| Mar 21, 2014

The 40-minute setup is deliciously nutty, with eccentric turns from Walken and Spacek. But the longer Adam remains above ground, the more plodding and predictable the scenario becomes.

| Mar 21, 2014

[A] bizarre hybrid of romantic comedy cliches and less-than-subtle social commentary.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2014

Despite its original concept, the movie loses much of its socially satiric edge once Fraser emerges from his underground bunker and starts wooing Silverstone.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2014

Blast From the Past doesn't overtax Fraser's abilities -- the film is only a sweet comic confection -- but director and co-writer Hugh Wilson does rely on a rare quality that Fraser has in spades: charm.

| Mar 21, 2014

A stretched-out anecdote.

| Mar 21, 2014

Once the movie decides the air is clear and Fraser begins walking the earth, Blast becomes much spottier at hitting its comic targets and suffers from a bad case of the cutes.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2014

Any movie with a rhyming title should be treated with suspicion. And Blast From The Past -- two films inconveniently rolled into one creaking rom-com -- is as bad as it gets.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2014

Blast From the Past has a sweet, joyful spirit and some fun performances.

| Mar 21, 2014

There's something a little bit creepy and Dole-like about the notion that 35 years ago, everything was good and pure and right (except for that whole Cold War mess), while today, everything has become debased and confusing.

| Mar 21, 2014

This fresh idea delivers some scintillating humor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2014