Average Rating: 2.4/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 49
Filled with crass dialogue, unlikable characters, and overdone slapstick gags, King's Ransom is an utterly inept would-be comedy.
Average Rating: 2.2/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 14
Filled with crass dialogue, unlikable characters, and overdone slapstick gags, King's Ransom is an utterly inept would-be comedy.
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A multi-millionaire plans a scam that goes wrong in a great many ways in this comedy. Malcolm King (Anthony Anderson) is a wildly successful businessman who has gotten used to having things his own way. When King decides to divorce his wife, she's none too thrilled at the prospect and makes it clear she will make him pay a huge settlement in exchange for his freedom. King isn't keen on this idea, so he and his mistress hatch a scheme by which one of her friends (Jay Mohr) will "kidnap" King and
Apr 22, 2005 Wide
Jul 26, 2005
$4.0M
New Line Cinema
All Critics (50) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (51) | DVD (7)
The script, by TV writer Wayne Conley, shares some elements with the old Danny DeVito comedy Ruthless People, but humor isn't one of them.
Basically an improv scene sprawling to feature length.
King's Ransom is a wit-deficient barrage of obnoxious characters and second-hand punchlines.
Little in this film suggests 'director' Jeff Byrd and writer Wayne Conley possess any facility -- or familiarity -- with irony or any other comedic device.
The scenarios are halfway convincing and at times even passably clever; they are never, however, especially funny.
With the humor in this lazy farce about as subtle as a shotgun blast to the face, it's possible to see the whole movie as an accident, the cumulative result of haphazard negligence.
This slapdash comedy barely coughs up more than a couple of funny scenes as the story moves in predictable fits and starts before sputtering out of fuel half way through.
The wordplay of the title here is the only slightly clever element of this extremely lame comedy.
Coarse comedy about kidnapping and revenge.
Anthony Anderson shows he can star in a movie without a kangaroo in this kidnapping plan gone crazy.
Could be better with this kind of talent...
King's Ransom lumbers forth clumsily, choreographing its slapstick pratfalls with all the class and taste of a Courtney Love relapse.
The thing looks like it was written in a week, directed in two, and forgotten about by all involved in less than three.
King's Ransom deserves to be bashed, burned, and have its ashes scattered over Hollywood
It is, quite plainly, like watching a movie that's trying to go out of its way to be horrible.
Also add the film to that ever-growing list of films only Earl Dittman likes.
I couldn't pay anyone to see this movie. Literally.
(Anthony) Anderson is funny, usually. Just not here.
A mirthless comedy about venal people doing stupid things.
Mean-spirited, unpleasant comedy about characters who are both nasty and stupid and who deserve every bad thing that happens to them. In fact, they deserve more.
Byrd's romp through the most contemptible stereotypes of women, gays, and ethnic minorities makes his film unfit for just about anyone, never mind royalty.
All these plots converge in a decidedly unfunny cacophony.
Another Anthoney Anderson Great Movie, not sure who is funnier him or Donald Falson, This one will make you laugh. Worth adding to a collection even though only 3 starts.
November 25, 2007Super Reviewer
As terrible as this movie is, i only watched it for one reason...Nicole Parker is drop dead beautiful!!! I love that woman.
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