The acting matches the movie's humor, which is to say that it's periodically mundane.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 24, 2020

Scenes with remarkable comic potential were sucked completely of their life.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

A charmless idiot, a clumsy rip-off of Jackass and one more tiresome exercise in arrested adolescence -- add them up and you have Hot Rod.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 31, 2019

Sandberg has a stubborn charm that should win over even the most jaded veteran of post-[Napoleon] Dynamite comedy.

| Mar 31, 2019

He'll break a few ribs -- you'll split your sides.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2019

The silly kills the funny. Every time things get rolling, some guy starts doing a ridiculous dance for no reason. Or Rod and his brother incessantly repeat the words "cool beans."

| Mar 31, 2019

The Jackass-ification of mainstream American comedy continues, but where are the laughs?

| Mar 31, 2019

In the end, it's hard not to like a film whose characters celebrate their finest achievements by getting together and popping some bubblewrap,

| Mar 31, 2019

Rod's painful, amateur stunts wouldn't look out of place on YouTube. The rest of Samberg's humour is rather more patchy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 6, 2018

People like me who are fans of sophomoric humor, it's a hoot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2014

A perennial problem with comedy from regular collaborators is that the results feel too much like friends' in-jokes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 15, 2011

Awesomely dumb slapstick is for teens and adults only.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2010

The results are barely worth an illegal download.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 6, 2010

A remarkably unambitious yet moderately diverting time waster.

| Jul 6, 2010

Oh, Napoleon Dynamite! What have you wrought? [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2009

...comedy is a subjective thing, and what makes one person laugh may simply bore someone else. Hod Rod bored me.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 13, 2008

Instead of poking fun at its characters or using their interactions to drive the laughs, Hot Rod merely hopes that you're as willing as Samberg is to find it entertaining when comedians re-enact movie scenes from 20 years ago.

| Sep 10, 2008

Hot Rod emerges as a daffy, dorky summer surprise, a silly comedy of non sequiturs that feels like a cockeyed collaboration between Will Ferrell and Mel Brooks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2008

...briskly-paced and perpetually irreverent...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2008

Cell phones, the Internet, '80s fashion and '70s style are all thrown together for a winning combination.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 3, 2008