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Critics Consensus: Mixed Nuts may provoke strong allergic reactions in all but the most undemanding filmgoers -- and the most forgiving Steve Martin fans.
Critic Consensus: Mixed Nuts may provoke strong allergic reactions in all but the most undemanding filmgoers -- and the most forgiving Steve Martin fans.
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (26) | DVD (3)
Director/co-scripter Nora Ephron pitches the humor at a cacophonous level and displays the comedic equivalent of two left feet in evolving an absurdist, slapstick yarn.
Ephron's timing and sensitivity have deserted her, leaving behind only the sentimentality.
A title song incorporating the names of nut varieties is only one of the film's desperate ploys.
Is there anything more excruciating than failed farce?
Every character shines with such dazzling intensity and such inexhaustible comic invention that the movie becomes tiresome, like too many clowns.
Gag.
Even for a Christmas comedy, it's blasphemous -- delightfully so.
A relentlessly hectic, poorly structured farce that falls embarrassingly flat.
The beginning of Steve Martin's non-funny comedies. Ephron should know better as well.
Martin's comedic talents show no signs of life in this truly abysmal adaptation of a superior French farce...
A dreadful, dreary would-be dark comedy.
Quirky, enjoyable comedy with an unknown Parker Posey on roller skates and Adam Sandler being charming in a real minor part.
From Nora Ephron comes the kooky Christmas comedy Mixed Nuts. Starring Steve Martin, Rita Wilson, Juliette Lewis, and Adam Sandler, the film has a great cast. But the characters aren't that interesting; their just eccentric weirdos that're all doing their own separate things and they don't really work well together. And, the story too is all over the place, with things just happening randomly without any lead up. Festively chaotic, Mixed Nuts delivers a few laughs but is too uneven and lacks focus.
Super Reviewer
Although the movie itself was a little weird, I really enjoyed the whole cast. Enjoyable!
Adorable, with Martin, Kahn, and Wilson giving great performances, and a strange cameo from Adam Sandler.
Utter madness...
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