Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
With a hilarious script and capable cast, the film puts a clever spin on the everyone-is-a-suspect plot.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Gary Thompson
It can be broadly funny when it does not lapse into lazy "Dukes of Hazzard" caricature, which is often.Read Full Review »
50
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The actors more eager to goof around in schlumpfy costumes on a low-budget lark than to play their trashy characters with the seriousness such farce requires.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
My problem was that I didn't care who killed Mona Dearly, or why, and didn't want to know anyone in town except for Chief Rash and his daughter.Read Full Review »
The bad-taste murder farce is just an excuse for a bunch of actors to go slumming and ride about in - ha, ha - Yugos.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
The script plays goofy games, stopping the action for Tarantino-style small talk; piling on alternate, "Rashomon"-style flashbacks; and divulging its characters' secrets in no particular order.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Amy Taubin
Bette Midler and Danny De Vito mug more shamelessly than usual.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Charles Taylor
The movie is flat-footed, and the pacing gives you time to rest between laughs.Read Full Review »
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