SummaryTraces the misadventures of buddies J.D. (Black) and Wayne (Zahn), who begin to suspect that their best friend, Darren Silverman (Biggs), is going to allow himself to be badgered into marrying Judith (Peet), a woman he doesn't love. They decide to reunite him with his long lost love from their school days (Detmer) -- even if they have to kidnap J... Read More
Directed By:Dennis Dugan
Written By:Hank Nelken, Greg DePaul
Saving Silverman
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Generally Unfavorable
22
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5.7
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
22
7% Positive
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24% Mixed
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69% Negative
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70
I was laughing myself sick over Saving Silverman, a sublimely idiotic farce in the "There's Something About Mary" tradition.
50
It's basically a cheerful slob job, one of those slapped-together features so often embraced by teenagers with more disposable income than discernible taste.
User score
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5.7
32% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
53% Mixed
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15% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Dec 1, 2014
10
Ignore those fake critics in Hollywood and listen to the people! This film is hilarious and ever-quotable! Wayne: So Darren tells me you're a psychologist. Judith: That's right. Wayne: I'm in a related field. Judith: Really? What is it? Wayne: Pest and rodent removal. Judith: How is that related? Wayne: We both help people. Well worth the hour and a half with Steve Zahn and Jack Black being the best 'sidekicks' and Neil Diamond lovers ever on film!
Jun 7, 2012
10
It's so very sad that the critics of 2001 didn't have the insight to appreciate this movie. If you don't understand the characters you don't understand human psychology.
If you can't laugh at this movie, you aren't human.
38
Relentlessly dopey and vulgar.
25
Screenwriters look to many sources for inspiration. In the case of Saving Silverman, they looked behind them, and liked what they saw.
20
Does occasionally rise out of the sewer of its self-imposed idiocy, ascending in brief moments from utter witlessness to half-witlessness, mostly thanks to the loose comic byplay between Mr. Black and Mr. Zahn.
12
So bad in so many different ways that perhaps you should see it, as an example of the lowest slopes of the bell-shaped curve.
0
Reaches toward new heights of comic laziness and succeeds beyond anyone's wildest expectations.
Jan 10, 2023
5
Very funny, but it's like a stupid funny movie. The loser crew loses one guy to his new girlfriend. They try to kidnap her because they want their friend back.
Sep 1, 2014
2
Yikes! Despite a charming Amanda Peet, the film lacks in plot and god-awful acting. Ahem, Jason Biggs, et cetera. Neil Diamond can't possibly approve of this filth?
