The crucial problem of course is that for a comedy, it's not really very funny.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2021

Fred is a particularly crass, unappealing imaginary friend, going out of his way to stir up trouble more than engaging in fun activities.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 11, 2020

A fantastic cult comedy. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2020

Drop Dead Fred is an erratic stab at making madness sensible, a slapstick nightmare that goes too sane, that tries too hard to be both good and rotten.

| May 5, 2014

This is easily one of the worst films I've ever seen.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 5, 2014

The episodic flashbacks are cast in an unfunny Freudian light -- domineering mother, helpless hubby, the tragically withdrawn child. What a laugh riot!

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 5, 2014

That any of it, however, should suddenly, melodramatically lead to Elizabeth learning to assert herself is, to say the least, unpersuasive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2014

The movie is no comic masterpiece, but it is consistently amusing in a way that sometimes reminded me of a kiddie picture and at other times of a more sophisticated comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2014

It tries too hard to mimic Beetlejuice, especially in British comic Rik Mayall's frantic performance as the title character -- Mayall is no Michael Keaton -- but it has a whimsical comic energy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2014

Drop Dead Fred is a movie for people who like the sound of fingernails on blackboards and the feel of a drill bearing into a bicuspid.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 5, 2014

It's rare that a movie so cleverly conceived is so poorly executed.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 5, 2014

It plays like a collection of bits, skits that have been thrown together with little eye to continuity.

| May 5, 2014

It's particularly irritating if you've seen the much better Harvey.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2014

A charmless, irritating psychological fantasy that can`t decide whether to aim at kids or adults.

| May 5, 2014

Drop Dead Fred is a therapeutic fable for people who believe that by becoming an adult, one inevitably loses the capacity to have fun. But the alternative it suggests is nothing short of horrifying.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2014

Just a strident celebration of booger jokes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 5, 2014

[A] shrill, repulsive venture into kidsploitalion.

| May 5, 2014

Slapstick '90s comedy is filled with crass humor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2013

As the naughty ghost pal of Phoebe Cates, an obnoxious British actor named Rik Mayall is like Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice without the juice.

| Original Score: F | Sep 7, 2011

An appallingly unpleasant, unfunny, and deeply disturbed motion picture. It's an ear-splitting slapstick comedy for an unknown audience, unifying parents and kids in discomfort with its aggressive movement.

| Original Score: F | May 24, 2011