Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)

All Critics (36) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (36) | DVD (1)

Icky and repellent in ways it probably did not intend.

December 7, 2011 Full Review

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

The base 'Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star': Offensive? Yes. But so is the critically lauded 'Bridesmaids'

September 21, 2011 Full Review | Comments (6)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

This movie is dire, soul-crushing stuff.

September 14, 2011 Full Review

Matt Singer

Time Out New York

Top Critic

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

Eric D. Snider

Film.com

Top Critic

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

Andrew Barker

Variety

Top Critic

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 | Comments (2)

Tom Russo

Boston Globe

Top Critic

I'm not sure how many tedious sex jokes and humorless physical gags people can take before they run out of the theater screaming, but Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star certainly tests the limits.

February 11, 2013 Full Review

Amy Curtis

We Got This Covered

God, this guy sucks. Swardson. And Bucky.

January 9, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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

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

Tim Grierson

Screen International

Childish.

December 7, 2011 Full Review

Brett Michel

Boston Herald

Nothing to see here, kids.

September 16, 2011 Full Review | Comments (7)

Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

The movie is embarrassingly bad.

September 16, 2011 Full Review

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

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

Grae Drake

Movies.com

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 | 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

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

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

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

Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

• 1. Kathy McGee: Bucky, what are you doing in the bushes?
  2. Bucky Larson: Eating a fudge frisbee and doing a mad lib.
  – Submitted by Noah C (6 months ago)
• 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 (16 months ago)
• 1. Miles Deep: Your dick has cuddly eyes?
  – Submitted by xniquet L (16 months ago)
• 1. Bucky Larson: Everyone keeps talking about my accent, but I'm from America!
  – Submitted by Chris P (21 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 (21 months ago)

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