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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)

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Average Rating: 1.6/10
Reviews Counted: 35
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A severely misguided and inept comedy incapable of even telling its single joke properly.

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Average Rating: 1.6/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 11

A severely misguided and inept comedy incapable of even telling its single joke properly.

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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is a new comedy starring Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, and Stephen Dorff. Bucky (Swardson) is a small town grocery bagger, going nowhere in life - until he discovers that his conservative parents were once adult film stars! Armed with the belief that he has found his destiny, Bucky packs up and heads out to LA, hoping to follow in his parents' footsteps. -- (C) Sony Pictures

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Comedy

Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, Nick Swardson

Jan 17, 2012

$2.3M

Sony Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

All Critics (35) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (35) | DVD (1)

Icky and repellent in ways it probably did not intend.

December 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
Rafer Guzman
Newsday
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The base 'Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star': Offensive? Yes. But so is the critically lauded 'Bridesmaids'

September 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer | Comments (5)
Joe Baltake
Passionate Moviegoer
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This isn't even a series of skits, but a series of vague ideas for skits that nobody fleshed out.

September 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Eric D. Snider
Film.com
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Through all this, one feels nothing more strongly than an acute sympathy for all involved -- in particular Ricci, who gives her role more than it deserves, and Herrmann, a classy character actor who once won a Tony.

September 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Andrew Barker
Variety
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Swardson and the gang generally opt for silly over edgy and outrageous, but Bucky is just too dashed-off a character for the movie to get by on that.

September 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comments (2)
Tom Russo
Boston Globe
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This god-awful, unfunny, stinkingly putrid sketch-comic movie has exactly one snicker-worthy moment, involving Kevin Nealon and a stolen grape. But watching the rest of it will make you whine.

September 10, 2011 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comments (14)
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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Putrid and completely unfunny, 'Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star' is a torturous exercise for a viewer. I can't count the times I wanted to walk out of this ghastly excuse for a movie. Still, I stayed with it. I just couldn't bring myself to leave.

December 22, 2011 Full Review Source: KWQC-TV (Iowa) | Comment
Linda Cook
KWQC-TV (Iowa)

Working under the incorrect assumption that anything having to do with porn is hilarious, Bucky Larson is a consistently strained comedy without much charm or wit.

December 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Screen International | Comment
Tim Grierson
Screen International

Childish.

December 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Boston Herald | Comment
Brett Michel
Boston Herald

Nothing to see here, kids.

September 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comments (6)
Kimberley Jones
Austin Chronicle

The movie is embarrassingly bad.

September 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Common Sense Media

I go take seven aspirin for my current headache, I do need to let you know that there's a whole other actually funny movie going on inside this one, struggling to come out.

September 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Dave White
Movies.com

Don't put yourself through this train wreck of a movie. Unless of course you enjoy feeling like the screenwriter is hovering at your elbow during the film screaming "GET IT?!" after every joke.

September 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Grae Drake
Movies.com

This movie is dire, soul-crushing stuff.

September 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Matt Singer
Time Out New York

This is the Tom Brady who made The Hot Chick and The Comebacks, not the Tom Brady who plays football, although who's to say which of them is better at making movies?

September 14, 2011 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | Comment (1)
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

All involved will be known as those who took part in the worst movie of the year

September 13, 2011 Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | Comment
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

Swardson just doesn't rise to the occasion, apparently hoping that enormous buck teeth and a Dutch Boy wig will do the acting for him.

September 13, 2011 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Betsy Sherman
Boston Phoenix

Of course, Bucky Larson isn't one of the year's worst films because its laughs are poisoned and problematic-rather, it's one of the year's worst films because there aren't any laughs at all.

September 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
David Ehrlich
Boxoffice Magazine

A comic monstrosity...plays like an unfunny idea for a raunchy five-minute sketch that's been cruelly extended to an insufferable ninety-six minutes.

September 11, 2011 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | Comment
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

The worst Saturday Night Live sketch movie ever made that was never actually a Saturday Night Live sketch.

September 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs | Comment
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs

You may or may not laugh, but at least you'll be closer to death and no better for it.

September 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comments (6)
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine
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If funny is feeling sick and not laughing, this film is hilarious. Congratulations and welcome to my top 11 worst films of all time list, Mr. Bucky Larson!

February 23, 2012
SirPant
Anthony Lawrie

Super Reviewer

Okay, I'll admit, there were a few scenes in "Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star" that had me laughing out loud, but mostly it was because of how stupid the movie is. I have never seen a movie try so hard to make a story work before. So an idiot with over-exagerrated buck teeth tries to become a porn star with his

September 7, 2011
KJ Proulx
KJ Proulx

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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Quotes

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    1. Gary: Look I don't know you, I don't know Kathy, Yeah I've seen her in the laundry room a few times but that doesn't mean I trust her. I trust her tits.
    – Submitted by xniquet L (4 months ago)
    1. Miles Deep: Your dick has cuddly eyes?
    – Submitted by xniquet L (4 months ago)
    1. Bucky Larson: Everyone keeps talking about my accent, but I'm from America!
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)
    1. Bucky Larson: I'm the son of two movie stars! That's like uhh, super duper, movie star!
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)

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