Very simple and trivial. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 2, 2019

Folks! stinks! But Robert Klane's screenplay for this fatally flawed, off-beat, black-humored comedy does have some almost redeeming values.

| Apr 17, 2018

Don Ameche and Anne Jackson are the parents, and they both look absolutely miserable.

| Apr 21, 2015

The film's appeal will depend largely on whether you feel like laughing at senile dementia and automobile accidents.

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

Senility and attempted suicide are used to supposed comic effect as Selleck wanders around in various states of disarray, probably wondering what on earth he did to end up in this dreadful film.

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

It is an unnecessarily cruel little film that attempts to evoke humor from the afflictions of old age, while using the bungling of an elderly parent to thrash a younger man into submission.

| May 4, 2014

[Director Kotcheff] treats material that might have been effective as dark, nightmare comedy as something bright, bouncy and frivolous, an approach that kills all the laughs and turns shock into mere tastelessness.

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

For the final third, we don't know whether to laugh at or be appalled by Selleck's attempts to murder a couple of old people by such methods as pushing them onto the highway in a gas-drenched Ford Pinto.

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

Klane has written this one as less of a slow burn, going instead for obnoxiously stunt-filled, madcap farce, all the way to the high-concept-reinforcing title exclamation point.

| May 4, 2014

Marking severe career setbacks for Ameche and Selleck, Folks! represents an obvious miscalculation as to the low intelligence of the mass audience.

| Mar 26, 2009

A comedy only Dr. Kevorkian could have loved.

| Original Score: D | Jul 18, 2006

Masquerading as a commentary on the greedy '80s, this is clearly the sort of moronic comedy beloved of the Weekend at Bernie's team of Kotcheff and writer Robert Klane.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2005

Embarrassing from stem to stern

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2005

It's not easy to fathom how Mr. Selleck or any other actor could have read this far in Robert Klane's screenplay and still decided to go full steam ahead.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

An embarassment to all involved

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 24, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 26, 2002

I would think sitting through this sort of thing would cause a little soul-searching in anyone. Don't let it happen to you.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2001

Folks! is a dreadful comedy about, of all things, Alzheimer's disease. And, just in case this isn't offensive enough, there's attempted suicide, matricide and patricide in the film's final third.

| Nov 17, 2001

A romp about Alzheimer's? I mean, really.

| Nov 17, 2001