The Pest Reviews
Anything for a laugh, anything to keep it going...
| Jan 20, 2021
Crazy, I'll give it credit for that. Much crazier than I thought it would be, just the premise alone...it's the goofiest, not all of it, but mixed together it combines for the goofiest...
| Jan 20, 2021
It pains me to admit just how obnoxious The Pest is because it has all the ingredients of the kind of guilty pleasure I love.
| Feb 25, 2011
It seems to be targeted at eight-year-old boys with attention-deficit disorder, and could have been more competently made by any one of them.
| Aug 4, 2009
Even surrounded by unbearable sloppiness, Leguizamo is fascinating to watch.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 4, 2009
Pic exists solely to showcase Leguizamo's wild and crazy antics, which are very much an acquired taste.
Full Review | Mar 27, 2009
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2005
Pass that can of Black Flag, hon.
| Original Score: 0/5 | Jun 25, 2005
When Mr. Leguizamo isn't doing third-rate ethnic parody, he is wallowing in scatological jokes that are so poorly prepared and executed that they make similar antics by Mr. Carrey play like classic routines.
Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Aug 30, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 4, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | May 29, 2003
If you have any doubt that John Leguizamo is not funny, this movie will handily reinforce that notion.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2003
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2002
The script and Leguizamo's talents don't mesh, so the actor comes off as more offensive than funny.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 5, 2002
There is not a socioeconomic, political, ethnic or gender group that is left unoffended.
| Apr 17, 2002
Talented and versatile actor-comedian John Leguizamo indulges himself so totally with incessant mugging, mimicking and all-around showing off that he begins to wear out his welcome before the opening credit sequence is over.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 14, 2001
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000
This movie defies review. To critique it would be like writing about a restaurant that only serves birdseed. Of course, humans don't like birdseed -- it's not meant for our species.
| Jan 1, 2000
A revoltingly bad stinker that is easily in the running for the worst film of the decade.
| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Essentially a collection of ethnic and bodily function jokes punctuated by chases.
| Original Score: D | Jan 1, 2000