And you will laugh till your ribs ache -- not because director Chris Columbus of the "Home Alone" movies has a gift for farce, which he does, but because Williams is to funny what the Energizer Bunny is to batteries. He keeps going and going and going.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Strictly speaking, it's not a top example of movie making, but it offers two hours of undeniably solid entertainment, and not too many viewers can argue with that.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Williams gives an inspired comic performance. Unfortunately, he outclasses the movie, which is basically a patchwork rip-off of Tootsie.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
Most of the fun comes from seeing people fooled by what seems to us, who are in on the joke, a completely penetrable ruse. Curiously enough, what's really unpersuasive about Mrs. Doubtfire -- not to say draggy -- is its nondrag sequences.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
But the film is not as amusing as the premise, and there were long stretches when I'd had quite enough of Mrs. Doubtfire.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Williams has to break out of a second-rate "Tootsie" imitation, ankles clamped in pathos and face covered in latex. He pulls it off in the end, but it's not pretty.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
The movie's biggest challenge, one that it does not exactly meet, is to persuade the audience that this husband and father's escapade is somehow an act of love.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Susan Wloszczyna
That Mrs. Doubtfire, a Tootsie Poppins for our times, misfires in the plausibility department and mis-aims its well-meaning if muddled messages about divorce doesn't matter. [24 Nov 1993 Pg. 01.D]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Anyone looking for the kind of comic brio that Dustin Hoffman and company brought to "Tootsie" will not find it here. [24 Nov 1993 Pg. F1]Read Full Review »
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