Hot Rod Reviews

Samberg proves to be less than big screen-ready (hardly surprising, given his most notable SNL work has come in music video shorts and not any sketch work).

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Even the funny bits are ruined by overemphasis.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Andy Samberg is tolerable in a 90-second Digital Short on Saturday Night Live, but very, very far from tolerable in a 90-minute feature film.

| Original Score: 2/10

While certainly not on the same sub-level as the other SNL flicks, Hot Rod is more like 25% inspired weirdness and 75% recycled stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Uneven but often funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

"Hot Rod" suggests what "Napoleon Dynamite" might have looked like under the direction of Hal Needham

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

At times, "Hot Rod" seems to park itself on the viewer's head and refuse to budge until it gets a laugh. And it does, sometimes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

...cheap and clumsy...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

We know from the Lazy Sunday bits Samberg's a funny guy, but he doesn't have enough to work with here.

Truly funny, even though most viewers (who are as much the movie's targets as the characters we see onscreen) just aren't going to get it.

Full Review | Original Score: 73/100

There really is a fine line between clever and stupid, and the Hot Rod guys are on the wrong side of it.

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Started to go bad about the time someone in casting said, "You know what? I'll bet America is just about ready for the comedy stylings of Sissy Spacek."

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The movie may be a bizarre goof, but the effort -- second-hand material included -- is utterly sincere.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

If this film somehow manages to become a hit it will be a bigger feat than ANYTHING this dumb dude tries on screen!

| Original Score: 1.5/5

A silly, sputtering, goofball comedy gone gooey.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

Samberg's debut feature shows real promise for the rising star, and though Hot Rod isn't for everyone, it is a nice reminder that a movie doesn't necessarily have to be good to be enjoyed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It's sad when the most interesting part of a film is a dream sequence involving a large taco fighting an equally massive grilled cheese sandwich.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

As messy and as playful as a box of puppies.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Blissfully liberated from logic and reason, it plays by its own twisted rules and, surprisingly, comes up a winner.

| Original Score: 3.5/4

Samberg and Schaffer just didn't provide enough gas for this groaning moped of a movie, and it fizzles out before Rod even gets to the ramp.

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