A dazzlingly inventive comedy that contains more laughs than his last half-dozen movies put together.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 17, 2024

Martin makes old routines work by letting us know that they’re old and then doing them immaculately.

| Sep 13, 2023

... this comedy drops the wild and crazy humor of Martin’s standup comedy act in a spoof of old Hollywood science fiction films (from Frankenstein” to Donovan’s Brain), femme fatale melodramas, and impossible love stories.

| Dec 17, 2022

Steve Martin plays Dr. Hfuhruhurr, Kathleen Turner spoofs her star-making Body Heat role, and the Elevator Killer turns out to be the last person you would suspect. And so it goes in this zany comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2021

Even if this isn't Steve Martin's best role or his best film, it holds up pretty well, offering a glimpse of a comic genius at a wonderfully experimental stage of his career.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2015

Steve Martin made his share of bad movies, but sometimes he could pull one out through sheer force of comedic will.

| Original Score: B | Jun 5, 2013

Martin at his zaniest

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2006

Hit and miss sci-fi comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2004

This is not a great comedy but it has scenes that don't know that.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2003

Martin's best comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 19, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2003

A dumb but fun comedy that is infinitely more tolerable than Martin's later work

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2003

Hilarious. Underrated Martin.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2003

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2002

Sometimes hysterical, but it thinks it's funnier than it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2002