A disappointing sequel, with a drowsy murder-mystery at its center and obvious satiric targets that are impossible to miss.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 28, 2024

Funny and inventive vehicle for Chevy Chase's hapless and genuinely funny comic creation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2015

In this meager sequel, as in its popular predecessor, Chevy Chase demolishes every easy target in sight with a quip of the tongue. Some of the lines are funny, but after a while you just want to smack him.

| Jul 1, 2015

Being so sour about Fletch makes one feel like Kvetch, but seriously, is all it takes to be a screen comic the ability to flare the nostrils and to fall down?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 1, 2015

With arbitrary laugh lines coming along to strip the credibility from every situation and the integrity from every character, there's hardly a moment in the new film that seems as authentically alive as a California Raisins commercial.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 1, 2015

With the exception of an elaborate fantasy sequence straight out of a Disney movie and a running gag about a Cadillac without brakes, Fletch Lives should have been called Fletch Staggers.

| Jul 1, 2015

The sequel, like the original, is entertaining in a slightly stale, basically sitcomy way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2015

Chase delivers a one-note performance, consisting mainly of predictable comebacks and salacious leers, while the characters who become the targets of his witty rejoinders are weak and silly stereotypes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 1, 2015

Your appreciation of this film will rest largely on your taste for Chase's particular brand of snide comedy. If you like Chase, Fletch lives; if you hate Chase, Fletch dies.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 1, 2015

The plot, such as it is, doesn't so much revolve around Chase in a variety of ill-fitting disguises, as spin mercilessly out of control.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 1, 2015

This sequel to Fletch, in which Chase played novelist Gregory McDonald's Los Angeles newspaperman-detective, seems to have a chip on its shoulder, daring an audience not to laugh.

| Jul 1, 2015

Chevy Chase is perfectly suited to playing a smirking, wisecracking, multiple-identitied reporter in Fletch Lives.

| Mar 26, 2009

The mystery is barely there, and nobody really cares, as long as Chase gets to ham it up under a wider array of fake moustaches and silly accents.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2008

The humour throughout is alternately mindless, sexist, racist, and homophobic, and would probably offend if you managed to stay awake.

| Jan 26, 2006

A very disappointing sequel that's not nearly as funny and witty as the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2005

Not quite as good as the first, but still an enjoyable jaunt

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2004