It fumbles at the last moment... but this is still mainly a pleasantly nasty delight that was strangely overlooked in the cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2019

It's inconceivable that "The 'burbs looked good on paper.

| Mar 26, 2019

Also starring Carrie Fisher, 'Burbs is a hilarious look at suburban mischief pre-Desperate Housewives. Check it out.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

The 'Burbs doesnit quite go the distance, but for most of its length it is a superbly inventive, insightful and funny black comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 22, 2017

This movie was directed by Joe Dante, whose style has become increasingly broad and abrasive since he made the clever Gremlins back in 1984.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 22, 2017

The script would like to be a horror film, a comedy and a commentary on suburban living, but it doesn't hit any target.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 22, 2017

Director Joe Dante funnels his decidedly cracked view of suburban life through dark humour in The 'Burbs.

| Mar 26, 2009

Characteristically, Dante's nonchalant attitude towards plot structure makes for erratic pacing (the last half hour does flag), but that's part and parcel of his breathless, anarchic style.

| Feb 9, 2006

The Burbs is a big unfurnished movie about some very small characters living in a suburbia that is consciously designed to look like sit-com land.

| Aug 30, 2004

A long shaggy dog story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2001

Why is it not funny? It's just not. Not remotely, momentarily, intermittently or otherwise funny.

| Jan 1, 2000

Although it initially flares up on high-concept firewood, this caper about nasty neighbors and curious klutzes gradually dies down into isolated crackles, sputters and phuts.

| Jan 1, 2000

This isn't a major Dante effort, but his ability to make a good-natured satire that allows an audience to read it several ways at once is as strong as ever, and many of the sidelong genre notations are especially funny.

| Jan 1, 1989