Patch Adams

A perfect vehicle for Robin Williams. He again plays the compassionate, manic clown that has been his main character throughout his movie career. And audiences love his wild end runs.

Shamelessly sappy and emotionally manipulative, Patch Adams is an aggressively heartwarming comedy-drama that may be roasted by critics but embraced by ticketbuyers.

The perfectly acceptable shtick executed by Williams--whose I-know-you-better-than-you-know-yourself seduction techniques ought to make him a hotter leading man--occasionally justifies the relentlessly light tone of this preachy 1998 comedy-drama.

Made me want to spray the screen with Lysol. This movie is shameless. It's not merely a tearjerker. It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia.

Williams isn't really playing Adams: He's once again playing himself, and the act is getting tired.

Oooh, this is toxic.

Audiences may find this pap brimming with heart and sympathy for the little guy, but as prescriptions go, Patch Adams is pure placebo.

I like Patch Adams, it's a good movie, but honestly, aside from Adams, Carin, Truman, the nurse, and some of the patients, almost everyone that got involved in Adams life is simply ****, they're mean, unpleasant people, to the point where it almost feels too fictional to be believable, like these kinds of people can't possibly exist in real life, as Adams himself would say, complete "****", it can get genuinely frustrating to watch at times. Still, despite all that, it remains a wholesome and heartfelt movie in many ways, Robin Williams plays the role wonderfully, he's always such a delight to watch, and the rest of the cast does a really solid job too, i definitely got emotional, which is honestly unavoidable with this kind of story, the score was beautiful as well, even if it felt a little overdone in certain moments, but mostly it was fine. At the end, Patch Adams is simply a genuinely good person surrounded by bad people, and while that makes the film frustrating at times, the emotional core, characters, and overall message are still incredibly powerful.

I admire the humanitarian spirit this movie expressed and also understand it is necessary to make adaptions in order to make it more drastic,but there is a lot of over-acting, and I'm afraid it presents inaccurate images about medical schools and the affiliated hospitals.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

It wasn't one of Robin Williams' best acting performances, in fact, on the whole, it is actually one of the worst. The rather poor graphic quality cannot be justified by the fact that we were in 1998, especially if only a year before a colossal of the caliber of Titanic had been produced. Painful film to watch, not because its contents are painful, indeed, but precisely because it hurts your eyes.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]