Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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positive
3(33%)
mixed
4(44%)
negative
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75
It is sophomoric, yet very funny. And until its weepy, reconciliatory ending, it moves with locomotive force. It's the type of movie that makes critics feel guilty about liking it, yet there's no refuting its charm. [02 Oct 1987, p.1D]
70
The result is a warm, imaginative comedy of wide appeal. [02 Oct 1987, p.8]
63
The screen writers have come up with a simple-minded scenario, true, but it is enlivened with enough laughs to make up for the shortcomings.
60
This slick movie proves how much fun it can be to watch first-rate actors challenge our credulity and rise above a second-rate script.
50
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON is idiotic at times, cute at others. Cameron shows a lot of charm, and the movie is a pleasant diversion.
50
For a stretch of 20 minutes or so, Like Father Like Son is as funny a film as you could hope to see. [02 Oct 1987, p.D1]
50
Like Father, Like Son is amusing, occasionally funny, and swift. [02 Oct 1987, p.E13]
25
The movie’s premise doesn’t work – not at all, not even a little, not even part of the time – and that means everyone in the movie looks awkward and silly all of the time.
25
Like Father Like Son has the cheap, florid look of a rejected television pilot, and the same air of anything-for-a-laugh desperation. [02 Oct 1987, p.J]
