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TV Guide's Movie Guide
The plot here has been played out hundreds of times (and often better) in other films.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
Midler and Long are never less than fun to watch.
Time Out
Top CriticAs a vehicle for their considerable comic talents, the enterprise is wheelclamped by typecasting.
Spirituality and Practice
A female buddy-buddy movie which grows more and more tiresome as it unspools
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Pretty funny star comedy with a couple hysterical bits.
| Original Score: 3/5
Juicy Cerebellum
I'm STILL trying to figure out why this film was a hit.
| Original Score: 1/5
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Great comedic pairing. Good fun.
| Original Score: 4/5
Flipside Movie Emporium
I shudder to think that a Shelley Long-Bette Midler pairing could have been considered a sure thing by anyone, at any time.
| Original Score: 1/5
There's more regressive coyness in this buddy adventure-comedy than anyone should have to sit through in a lifetime...
Such rarefied screen writing calls for the peerless talents of Arthur Hiller, a director with the comic timing of a tax auditor.
Unfortunately, the movie is so busy cross-polinating its genres that it never pauses for the kind of thought that might have made it really special, instead of just fitfully funny.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
Every bit as rude and wonderful as Ruthless People...
