Pleasingly cartoonish as physical comedy.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 25, 2015

Serious's most distinguishing feature is his unruly hair, which serves as both a reminder of Einstein's own unkempt mane and the endless series of '80s-era stand-up comedians memorable only for their wacky hairdos.

| Aug 6, 2014

The movie runs out of -- excuse me again -- energy in the late going, and the invention of the humor is uneven. But Serious plays the title role with charm and lightness. His wild red hair makes Don King's look like a crewcut.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2013

Young Einstein is good-natured and harmless, but it's not very funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2013

Considering the pre-opening buildup this film has had, it could turn out to be a bigger bomb than the one Einstein's theory anticipated.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 21, 2013

The next Serious movie could well be something special.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2013

It has the charm and advantage of a genuine visual style of its own, both laconic and witty, as well as a likably dopey plot and cast of characters.

| May 21, 2013

A rather lame, awkward and amateurish movie, only fitfully funny and made in such a remorselessly low-brow way that it makes Crocodile Dundee look like Citizen Kane.

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

Not all the gags work -- the cat pie-related ones, for instance -- but the whole is clearly the product of an inimitable and engaging talent.

| May 21, 2013

Serious himself is a pleasantly cartoonish screen presence, but he conveys an underlying, offhand intelligence that hints at an acute familiarity with his subject.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2013

Einstein has a handsome period look, even when director of photography Jeff Darling is shooting the musical montages that periodically break up the action.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2013

A five-minute idea stretched bloodily over 90 minutes of dead air.

| Original Score: D | Aug 26, 2009

Serious, a long-haired gangly clown, exhibits a brash and confident sense of humor, endearing personality, and a fondness for sight gags.

| Mar 26, 2009

The episodic structure and slapstick humour keep the pace superficially bubbling along, but given a flimsy intellectual base, form and content are at odds with one another.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2005

I couldn't even make it through this movie! Did anyone?

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 12, 2005

An animated, and clever cocktail of laughs and rock and roll

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2005

Pee-Yew! It was in focus, though.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 22, 2005

Lots of energy; very few laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2005

as much fun as you can have watching someone being repeatedly electrocuted and blown up -- over and over again

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 12, 2005