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Idle Hands Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 2.0
    31

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally unfavorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 0

    out of 100

    USA Today Staff [Not Credited]

    It's an unholy mess.

  • 10

    out of 100

    Variety Robert Koehler

    Perhaps thinking he had a farce to play with, Flender encourages tons of mugging; by overplaying what should be underplayed, helmer and cast deliver a fatal stab to the intended comedy-horror.

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  • 20

    out of 100

    The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

    Even pretensions toward the humorous and hip cannot save this blood-drenched film from its innate tastelessness.

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  • 25

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    There's just one problem: it's not scary and it's not funny...Idle Hands transcends that mundane level of badness into the realm of gross ineptitude.

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  • 25

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune

    It's got the sex. It's got the violence. And, most important, it has an array of pot-centered jokes that might be funny to someone under the influence of an illegal substance. [30 Apr 1999]

  • 50

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly

    Let us now praise Seth ''Scott Evil'' Green, whose beautiful delivery of otherwise generic wisecracks is all that stands between this painfully derivative horror comedy and a premature date with the eject button.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

    What Idle Hands lacks in originality, it makes up for in energy and insolence. It takes guts for a movie to indulge as much as this one does in proto-hippie humor and you find yourself tickled, in spite of yourself, by the movie's nerve, if not its jokes.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Exhibiting high spirits and a crazed comic energy. It doesn't quite work, but it goes down swinging--with a disembodied hand.

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