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Perhaps the best thing that can be said about My Name Is Bruce is that Bruce Campbell has in fact appeared in worse movies.
Light as air, My Name Is Bruce is good for a mild chuckle, not a belly laugh. As any Campbell fan knows, managing expectations is key to getting the most from his work.
Cheerfully embracing his status as cult B-movie genre megastar even as he sends it up, Bruce Campbell's sophomore directorial excursion, My Name is Bruce, is a big in-joke of definite if limited appeal.
My Name is Bruce is spasmodically funny, but Campbell's counterpoint of cowardice and cockiness remains irresistible.
Low midrange in the Master's oeuvre.
Bruce is a thoroughly silly low-budget film made for people who revel in thoroughly silly low-budget films. Fanboys rejoice. Filmistas beware.
Smug, silly, and forgettable, this vanity project wants to be the next cult hit but really is just another vehicle for Bruce Campbell...
"My Name is Bruce" won't give you sugar, baby. Not on its budget. But Splenda works fine as a substitute for this Kool-Aid, which Campbell knows fans will happily drink. A little bit of purposefully lousy filmmaking winds up going a long way.
It's far better than any of the horror remake crap coming out and it earns its laughs honestly by actually intending to be funny.
I'm pretty sure this is his best effort in years.
Pretty bad, but in a way, we'd be disappointed if it wasn't...it's all about Campbell, a limber linguist whose verbal sense seems straight out of the '40s, and a game physical comic. [Blu-ray]
Doesn't really cut it as a horror or a comedy despite Campbell's undeniable charm.
Add two stars-or even three-if you're as passionate about cheesy B-actor Campbell as he is about himself.
Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead II, etc.) jumps on the post-modern bandwagon with this refreshingly low-key and absolutely hilarious horror comedy.
It's an affably goofy riff on the headaches associated with being America's most underappreciated actor.
It gets by on its concept for a little while but too often mistakes stupid-stupid for clever-stupid.
Subtract Campbell from this movie's idiot-friendly equation and you've got just about any dimwitted horror comedy that's gone straight to video.
As director, [Bruce Campbell] trips through gory gags and gallows humor with more tenacity than talent, while onscreen he mugs shamelessly.
Comedy/horror movies like Slither and the Evil Dead movies have already done this sort of thing a lot better.
Just know going in that this isn't some hip satire. It's a straight-up B-flick. If that sounds cool, then "groovy"!
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