Pretty awful, but teen Sandler fans may like it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2010

The star and his numbskull cronies piss on Capra's grave with acrid insincerity.

| Jun 24, 2006

How could Adam Sandler, of all people, remake Capra? Well, shoddily, as it happens.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2003

A remake so bad it will make your gums bleed. Orphanage fires are funnier.

| Nov 19, 2002

There's a price to pay for the guilty pleasure Steven Brill's film affords -- a relentless process of dumbing down that tells the audience it's cool to be a doofus.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2002

Nothing about this movie works.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 9, 2002

Let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line: Stay home.

Full Review | Jul 2, 2002

It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jul 1, 2002

There's nothing funny about this.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2002

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jun 28, 2002

All in all, this baby makes you ever more eternally grateful for AMC and TCM on the cable. That's where the real movies have gone to hide.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 28, 2002

You don't have to be a tree-hugging pacificist to be sickened by the constant sight of Sandler putting his fists and boots to someone, or of others imitating his psychotic behaviour.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 28, 2002

It's nothing more than a money maker for the filmmakers and a pointless star vehicle for Sandler.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 28, 2002

A stink bomb of a movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 28, 2002

The otherwise good-naturedness of Mr. Deeds, with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely New York celebrities ... certainly raises the film above anything Sandler's been attached to before.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2002

Mr. Deeds isn't bad for an Adam Sandler film, which is as backhanded as a compliment can get.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 28, 2002

Anyone who has responded to the sweet side of Adam Sandler's growing comic screen persona is sure to be delighted by Mr. Deeds.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 28, 2002

Sandler is ready to be himself again, which means veering between his usual devilish savant and a newer post-adolescent gentleman.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2002

Never decides whether it wants to be a surreal farce, a satire, a romance, an homage or all of the above.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 28, 2002

It virtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre, with funny bits surfacing every once in a while.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2002