What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 88
Talented cast is squandered by an uninvolving script filled with unfunny gags.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 31
Talented cast is squandered by an uninvolving script filled with unfunny gags.
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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 16,783
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The novel of the same name by crime author Donald E. Westlake becomes this MGM comedy starring Martin Lawrence as Kevin Caffery, a thief who breaks into the supposedly unoccupied beachfront mansion of billionaire Max Fairbanks (Danny De Vito). Max unexpectedly catches the burglar red-handed and summons the police, but before the criminal can be carted off, Max impulsively claims that Kevin's lucky ring is his own. Enraged, Kevin vows revenge on the tycoon, and so begins a game of one-upmanship
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Cast
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Martin Lawrence
Kevin Caffrey -
Danny DeVito
Max Fairbanks -
John Leguizamo
Berger -
Glenne Headly
Gloria -
Carmen Ejogo
Amber Belhaven -
Bernie Mac
Uncle Jack -
Larry Miller
Earl Radburn -
Nora Dunn
Lutetia Fairbanks -
Richard Schiff
Walter Greenbaum -
William Fichtner
Detective Alex Tardio -
Ana Gasteyer
Ann Marie -
Sascha Knopf
Tracey Kimberly -
Siobhan Fallon
Edwina -
Lenny Clarke
Windham -
Lonnie Farmer
Washington Condo Doorma...
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All Critics (110) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (88) | DVD (13)
It's worse than the title suggests.
Top CriticA pinpoint study in what not to do with an adaptation, as well as in why altering a well-known fictional character to suit a poorly cast star is almost always a bad idea.
I'd rather watch a forgotten houseplant dehydrate and die.
This is the kind of do-nothing movie you eventually quit watching on an airplane. Unfortunately, theaters don't supply SkyMall catalogues to take up the slack.
Uncomfortably distasteful at times.
Well...you could waste a few hours of your life. Does that answer the question?
What's the Worst that Could Happen? takes a while to get going, but once it does, it's surprisingly effective, just as long as you appreciate it for what it morphs into - a no-holds-barred wacky comedy.
The most pathetic attempt at comedy in a long time.
It's hard to imagine that a movie with this cast could come up with so few solid laughs.
The film isn't just lightweight, it's weightless. You don't forget it two minutes later; you forget it before it's over.
Relentlessly unfunny.
I can't ask much more of a movie from which I expected so much less.
Rambling, contrived, not very funny.
Anything titled 'What's the Worst That Could Happen?' practically begs to be skewered with a play on its name.
An inane hodgepodge of heist comedy and sluggish romance, with only a few flashes of anything resembling funny.
Neither the disaster its title indicates nor the cheap laugh-fest that the presence of Martin Lawrence would imply.
Bumbles along from scene to scene without developing any suspense or comic momentum.
A mixed bag of hit-and-miss jokes.
Answers its own eponymous question time and again by straddling the unamusing and the offensive.
Doesn't have much to show at all, concept-, laugh-, or even logic-wise.
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