...an appealingly over-the-top premise that’s employed to watchable yet thoroughly erratic effect...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2023

It's an OK message, but do we have to have jokes this bad to go with it?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 14, 2022

Sinbad is a genial soul and his goodwill remains untouched by the mostly amateurish Houseguest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 24, 2019

Comedy at its most formulaic.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 12, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2005

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

Waste of Phil Hartman and Sinbad

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 24, 2004

Who decided Sinbad needed to star in a movie and what should we do to them when we find out?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2003

Tedious and unfocused...the contrivance in this forgettable comedy is inexplicably unbearable

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2003

Turns out to be an inane fish-out-of-water comedy. Along the way it turns into a virtual McDonald's commercial, too. The fact that you can hardly tell the difference is a good clue to the movie's bad-television flavor.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2002

here's that eviction notice

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 29, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 29, 2002

As good-natured as its big, beefy star, comedian Sinbad.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2001

In its worst moments, Houseguest becomes a struggle in which a very human comedian fights to project his personality over the director's technological muddle. But the good news is that Sinbad wins.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Like the housepest of the title, Sinbad's character here is more annoying than amusing and before the film is over you may just wish he'd go away.

| Jan 1, 2000

A film that lacks solid construction from the ground up, something that can't be "fixed in the editing," I'm afraid.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000