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

Pic exists solely to showcase Leguizamo's wild and crazy antics, which are very much an acquired taste.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2009

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

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 film is utterly without discipline or focus in a way that -- to one's shame --one eventually finds oddly endearing.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Obviously, someone must have told Leguizamo he's a comic genius. Whoever did that isn't his friend.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 1, 2000