Quick Change Reviews
BrianOrndorf.com
Easily a top-five career highlight for Bill Murray, Quick Change is a comedy jewel, squeezing a rare amount of mileage out of its fickle star, who appears atypically invested in the picture's mechanics.
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| Original Score: A-
TIME Magazine
Top Critic[Murray's] glancing, genial sarcasm buoys the action for the first half-hour. Then this caper comedy sinks into a puddle of urban rancor.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
After piquing our curiosity, Murray and Franklin skillfully let us in on the scheme and slowly reveal the nature of the three characters at the center of it.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Neither ambitious nor particularly memorable, but it's brought off with a sly flair that makes it most enjoyable.
Film4
From the opening scenes with Murray dressed as a clown for the robbery and playing his cynical, wise-cracking card to great effect, to the trio pitting themselves against the whims of New York City, this is breathtaking and inventive stuff.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Funny fluff featuring clowns, a bank robbery, and Bill Murray.
| Original Score: 3/5
Not likely to set the world alight, but a neat and engaging little comedy of bad manners.
Combustible Celluloid
Inventively sinister, endlessly hilarious dark comedy.
There is not much in Quick Change that hasn't been anticipated by Neil Simon and beaten to death by countless imitators. Mr. Murray's film is at the worn-out end of this bloodline.
eFilmCritic.com
Amusing comedy with a great, subdued performance by Murray. Runs out of steam too soon, though.
| Original Score: 3/5
Bill Murray dresses up as a clown to take hostages and rob a New York bank. Funny? Guess again.
Despite the fact that Change lags and lopes along toward an inevitable, trite conclusion, it also leaves itself wide open for funny moments.
A randomly, raggedly funny look at the personal cost of being one with the hustling, clamorous crowd.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
A delightful romp that generously allows the unknowns who dot the large supporting cast to garner the biggest laughs.
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| Original Score: 3/4
rec.arts.movies.reviews
By blurring the foreground characters and focusing on the background, New York City becomes the real main character of the film until the script falters near the end and Murray once again reclaims the audience's attention.
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| Original Score: +1 out of -4..+4
At least something works often enough that the movie announces Bill Murray is back and is funny again.
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| Original Score: 3/4
