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80
Crystal’s deadpan expressions and one liners interlock perfectly with Williams’s multiple personalities and verbal asides. They’re like basketball all-stars flipping no-look passes, trading slam-dunks and practically chest-bumping each other. Director Ivan Reitman doesn’t have to do more than keep time.
75
It's just another Williams and Crystal movie. But let's see a few more.
75
No masterpiece but undeniably heavy on laughs, the movie is put over by the buffed, lubricated dynamics of two leads who substantially transcend what is otherwise a borderline tepid dose of family values. [9 May 1997, p.13D]
70
Not surprisingly, there are some slow patches and formulaic touches, but that's a fair trade for the fun of watching Mr. Williams and Mr. Crystal make an irresistible comic team.
63
It's that predictable sweetness that makes any of this more than just bearable.
63
At least Williams and Crystal, old pals off the screen, seem to be enjoying themselves.
63
Hollywood's big-screen answer to France's 1983 charming film Les Comperes is a wacky star vehicle wildly out of control. [9 May 1997, p.D1]
60
A very text-book example of two actors better than the material, Crystal and Williams do their best but can't elevate this far.
60
Writers Ganz and Mandell (Parenthood, City Slickers) go pleasingly light on the syrup and sentimentality.
50
Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, teaming for the first time on the big screen, are moderately fun but suffer from what looks like a case of too-calculated Hollywood packaging.
