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Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt's a laff riot that also contains a torrent of scathing social satire that couldn't be more timely in light of the dismantling of affirmative action.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is not great comedy, and Wayans doesn't find ways to build and improvise, as Carrey does.
- 60The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe gags, like the plotting, have a giddy edge that can be sharp, but just as often they go nowhere.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt's made by a director who knows comedy, working from a script founded on a surefire slapstick premise.
- 50Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorBig laughs are few and far between in this 1998 movie, which is more successful as motivational anecdote than as comedy.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanHer setups here are so witless and pedestrian that there's no imagination to the crude slapstick punchlines; we're just watching a bland jester pantomime sensory overload.
- 40L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyIf you can be satisfied with only Wayans' Tourette's syndrome bit, or his perfect timing in the scene where he just kisses a girl and creams his pants, you'll go home happy.
- 25Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIt seems to have had the opposite effect on the director's taste, as she strives for new levels of raunchiness.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThis newest laff-riot from the once and future director of The Decline of Western Civilization documentaries is a lamentable mess, chiefly made up of stale gags that went bad sometime during the Kennedy administration and a stunningly unengaging romance that has all the snap of a moist cotton swab.
- 0The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyJust how dumb is Senseless? So dumb it even takes the fun out of stupid.