Mr. Deeds (2002)

All Critics (159) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (123) | DVD (26)

The star and his numbskull cronies piss on Capra's grave with acrid insincerity.

June 24, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Derek Adams

Time Out

Top Critic

Let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line: Stay home.

July 2, 2002 Full Review

Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

Top Critic

It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler.

July 1, 2002

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

There's nothing funny about this.

July 1, 2002 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

June 28, 2002

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

All in all, this baby makes you ever more eternally grateful for AMC and TCM on the cable. That's where the real movies have gone to hide.

June 28, 2002

Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

Top Critic

Pretty awful, but teen Sandler fans may like it.

December 26, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

The end result isn't dreadful, but it is patchy.

May 28, 2008 Full Review

Film4

Sandler barely expends any energy trotting out the "average dude who shakes up stodgy high society" schtick, and director Steven Brill and scripter Tim Herlihy follow lazy suit.

December 6, 2005 Full Review

Michael Dequina

Film Threat

Largely an unsalvageable wreck...

November 7, 2005 Full Review

Brent Simon

Now Playing Magazine

Anyone with an IQ over 85 should stay away.

September 30, 2005 Full Review

Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

Peter Gallagher must've been hard up for cash.

February 1, 2004 Full Review

Susan Michals

FilmStew.com

Click to read review

January 12, 2004 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Just another Sandler movie, nothing more, nothing less.

January 7, 2004 Full Review

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

This is a remake which will vaguely satisfy the Sandler faithful and have Capra fans gritting their teeth.

May 20, 2003

Jim Shelby

Palo Alto Weekly

How could Adam Sandler, of all people, remake Capra? Well, shoddily, as it happens.

March 30, 2003 Full Review

Empire Magazine

...Perpetuates [Sandler's] penchant for idiotic, schoolboy humor, misunderstood-nice-guy characters, and plots which insult the intelligence of anyone over 12.

February 8, 2003 Full Review

John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

The only saving grace about Mr. Deeds is its functioning as a wise and timely cliche': money can't buy everything--especially for a clunky comedy with no spirit or no spark.

February 4, 2003 Full Review

Frank Ochieng

Movie Eye

The film delivers as promised on most levels; however, it does help to be an Adam Sandler fan to begin with.

December 17, 2002 Full Review

Rebecca Murray

About.com

Not only entirely unnecessary, but in today's celebrity-hungry world, with its smart-alecky nonchalance, it just smacks of brash insincerity.

December 4, 2002

Johnny Diloretto

Reel.com

A remake so bad it will make your gums bleed. Orphanage fires are funnier.

November 19, 2002 Full Review

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

When you've already made something as execrable and universally loathed as Little Nicky, why stop there?

November 3, 2002 Full Review

Jane Crowther

ViewLondon

• 1. Longfellow Deeds: I got wicked bad frost bite when I was in the scouts. Check it out.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Jan: I was a rodeo clown for six years. You're gonna have to step it up a notch, shorty.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Longfellow Deeds: You said that you didn't know who I was and it made me realize, I don't know who I am. So I started working on it and here's what I've got so far; My name is Babe Bennett. I grew up in Sayasset, Long Island. I have brown eyes and I don't know what my natural hair color is anymore. When I was in fifth grade, I got a crush on Walter Kronkite and I really did have that Holly Hobby notebook I was telling you about. I love Bruce Springsteen, Allman Roka. and Abbott and Costello movies. I don't like liquorice or my ankles. Most importantly, I know that I messed up real bad and I'd be willing to spend the rest of my life begging you to give me another chance because I am so deeply in love with you and I know that it's definitely that forever kind of love.
  2. Longfellow Deeds: You're crazy. You have beautiful ankles.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Longfellow Deeds: Oh, I get it.You all invited me here so you could look down on me. Well, let me tell you that here you may all laugh at me, but down in Mandrake Falls we would laugh at you all.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Mac McGrath: I feel for you, I do. "Big journalist leaves career for Forrest Gump." I'm really gonna miss you.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Mac McGrath: Well, after this meeting I'm going down to my limo and head across to my 16-floor mansion to touch my girlfriend's big fake pompoms!
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)

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