It is a puzzling melange of live action and cartoon, real life and fantasy that is almost stupefyingly incoherent.

| Jan 17, 2018

You can almost see money dripping off the walls of the sets and cybersets in this special-effects extravaganza.

| Apr 26, 2007

The design is often brilliant, although the film is nowhere near as tasteless or funny as it ought to be.

| Jun 24, 2006

Why do I still have a soft spot for this flick? Because there are glimmers of intelligence in the mess, because it must have driven the marketing department crazy, and because it fails so differently than all those run-of-the-mill failures.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

This is a film for people with eyes but no brain.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2001

There's unwieldy mess -- but there's also unruly brilliance to this dark and funny story.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 1, 2001

Feels like a movie lost in a tide of brilliant, unrealized ideas.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 27, 2001

One of those newfangled production design monstrosities that grabs you by the collar in the first ten minutes, then shakes you around like a rag doll until you're ready to drop.

| Feb 23, 2001

The result is a script so needlessly complicated that it defies comprehension.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 23, 2001

The guy can't control his 'monkey,' get it? Heh-heh. Yep, that's the whole concept. Heh. Pretty twisted, eh? Heh ... har ... um ... zzzzzz.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2001

Its fondness for fart and genitalia jokes ... proves its downfall.

| Feb 23, 2001

Black-humor fans will be amply satisfied.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2001

The film becomes a flailing mess.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 23, 2001

A giddy madcap classic, one of the wildest and funniest American comedies in years.

| Feb 23, 2001

Too much of everything, a lo mein-stuffed lasagna in banana bechamel sauce. With a coffee malted. And pickles.

| Feb 23, 2001

A welcome antidote to the epidemic of witless, frenetic, secondhand low comedies that gnaw at our brains like antibody-resistant spirochetes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 23, 2001

The film has been edited into near-incoherence.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2001

An incredible journey of the imagination, darkly humorous and zesty in spirit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2001

Most of the movie is grotesque and creepy in the worst way.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2001

The same imagination that went into the design of this carnival landscape has not gone into the structure or logic of the story.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2001