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All Critics (22) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (13)
A full-on local crowd-pleaser, "Blackball" takes the genteel sport of, uh, lawn bowling and comes up with a shameless slice of Brit flag-waving comedy. Mar 27, 2009 | Full Review…
A full-on local crowd-pleaser, "Blackball" takes the genteel sport of, uh, lawn bowling and comes up with a shameless slice of Brit flag-waving comedy.
Derek Elley
It's messy, but the real problem is: it's not funny. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
It's messy, but the real problem is: it's not funny.
Peter Watts
A hackneyed portrait of zany British eccentrics whose limited appeal will presumably sink like a stone in the English Channel ... Oct 1, 2003 | Full Review…
A hackneyed portrait of zany British eccentrics whose limited appeal will presumably sink like a stone in the English Channel ...
Mark Kermode
I can think of only two explanations for its comprehensive badness. Either the director, Mel Smith, went through the script, carefully excising all the funny lines, or Firth sub-contracted the writing chores to his accountant. Sep 18, 2003 | Full Review…
I can think of only two explanations for its comprehensive badness. Either the director, Mel Smith, went through the script, carefully excising all the funny lines, or Firth sub-contracted the writing chores to his accountant.
Neil Norman
The laughs here are way off-target. This Brit-flop won't be bowling anyone over. Jul 22, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The laughs here are way off-target. This Brit-flop won't be bowling anyone over.
David Aldridge
Tim Firth's script is functional on a sitcom level at best, and Mel Smith's direction differs from the usual hack job only in being a bit worse (especially in the frequent montages set to rock songs). Oct 18, 2008 | Full Review…
Tim Firth's script is functional on a sitcom level at best, and Mel Smith's direction differs from the usual hack job only in being a bit worse (especially in the frequent montages set to rock songs).
Urban Cinefile Critics
It just winds up as another filmmaking exercise where it's thought that the story is there, but in reality, it got drunk at the corner bar and puked all over the characters. Apr 7, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
It just winds up as another filmmaking exercise where it's thought that the story is there, but in reality, it got drunk at the corner bar and puked all over the characters.
Rory L. Aronsky
Shares very little in common with the anarchic humor of the magazine, live shows, records or movies that made the Lampoon name so venerated in the first place. Feb 11, 2005 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Shares very little in common with the anarchic humor of the magazine, live shows, records or movies that made the Lampoon name so venerated in the first place.
Edward Havens
Blackball is a cinematic dirty bomb, a mediocre "comedy" that offers as many laughs as a dentist's drill. Feb 11, 2005 | Rating: 0.5/4
Blackball is a cinematic dirty bomb, a mediocre "comedy" that offers as many laughs as a dentist's drill.
Bob Bloom
Only occasionally does Blackball rise to the level of something that would stop you from flipping channels on TV. Feb 10, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Only occasionally does Blackball rise to the level of something that would stop you from flipping channels on TV.
Phil Villarreal
...another variation on the "snobs versus slobs" formula codified by Caddyshack Feb 6, 2005 | Rating: C
...another variation on the "snobs versus slobs" formula codified by Caddyshack
Philip Martin
a humorless bit of nonsense Jan 10, 2005 | Rating: 2/5
a humorless bit of nonsense
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