The result remains the funniest film of Martin’s career: a rags-to-riches riot of visual gags, oddball wit and, of course, outrageous silliness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 12, 2024

The verbal and conceptual gags... belong wholly to Martin's own brand of goofiness, and some of them are pretty funny.

| Mar 14, 2021

Within ts limitations, The Jerk is a capably produced entertainment, seasoned by deft bit performances from several actors...

| Apr 24, 2018

Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin.

| Feb 2, 2009

An artless, non-stop barrage of off-the-wall situations, funny and unfunny jokes, generally effective and sometimes hilarious sight gags and bawdy non sequiturs.

| Feb 2, 2009

The comedy runs out of steam when the jerk makes good, but laugh for laugh it's probably a better investment than 10.

| Jun 24, 2006

We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2005

The laughs aren't steady, but they're persistent, and the film moves fast enough to compensate for its unevenness.

Full Review | May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2003

An early watered down version of the crude comedy the Farrelly Brothers would later take to new extremes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001