Problem Child takes the theme of the mischievous child to an alarming, and sociopathic limit. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 30, 2022

Terrible. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 27, 2019

Sound funny? The filmmakers here think so. They've jacked this loud, lame shrieker of a movie up to the highest decibels, both aural and visual, and rammed it in our faces with almost numbing aplomb.

| Jul 14, 2014

It's misguided. It's not funny. And in its lame efforts to be irreverent and hip, it turns out to be just plain mean.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2014

There is something offensive about using an unloved and rebellious child as the butt of bad jokes in this way.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 30, 2014

The end is refreshingly less sentimental than it seems to be shaping up to be, but the film's ugly moments can't help but leave a bad taste.

Full Review | Apr 30, 2014

Some kids are born bad. Others achieve badness. And some have badness thrust upon them. The same can be said of movies.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2013

Smart beginning, witless ending.

| May 21, 2013

Inside Dennis Dugan's uncertainly staged, awkwardly sentimental Problem Child is another movie fighting to get out-one that's much meaner and probably more interesting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2013

Pipsqueak comedy that does not have the courage of its own convictions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2013

It's too bad the editors of Problem Child couldn't have saved time and money by just putting the whole film through a shredder.

| Original Score: 0/5 | May 21, 2013

The rest of the kid's tricks are too unimaginative to be much fun -- though with jokes this lame you won't have to worry as much about your children getting any bad ideas.

| Original Score: D- | Sep 7, 2011

Antics of a diabolical child are neither valuable nor funny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 23, 2010

The film gets so lost in angry pranks, it forgets to provide a reason why Junior shouldn't be hung from the nearest tree...The worst movie of all time? Problem Child.

| Original Score: F | Jul 29, 2010

Universal took a step in the right direction by whittling Problem Child down to just 81 minutes but didn't go far enough. The studio should have excised another 75 minutes and released this unbelievable mess as a short.

| Mar 26, 2009

Enough to make you gag.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 14, 2005

Grating, irritating, truly a problem movie calling itself a comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2004

As directed by the actor Dennis Dugan, everyone seems to be yelling their lines and making huge hand gestures instead of acting.

| Aug 30, 2004