Envy 2004

Critics score:
8 / 100

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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: A movie desperate for laughs. Read more

Anthony Breznican, Associated Press: Envy crawls to its finish through a minefield of poor taste and comedic misfires. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: A shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: With so many dubious elements at play, even the half-good ideas get lost in the shuffle. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Wrenchingly unfunny. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... one of the worst comedies I've ever seen. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Pure poo. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: An unusually static affair. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A weirdly airless disaster. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: A woeful little comedy that runs out of steam shortly after its opening sequence. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A labored misfire. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Far too much of it is unfunny. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: I giggled, with a level of disbelief verging on awe, at the notion that people actually woke up each morning to shoot this movie thinking that they were engaged in an act of entertainment (or sanity). Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Envy is both doomed and destined to become a cult film. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Everyone involved in Envy has done better work before. Envy isn't good for them or us. Read more

John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: What's frustrating about the half-cocked comedy that follows is that it contains so many inspired moments and offers plenty of laughs, yet suffers from the lack of a unifying directorial intelligence. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Envy isn't a comedy so much as a welter of mugging, pratfalls and goofy attitudes struggling to coalesce into a comedy. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: One of the lamest comedies in recent memory. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A mean-spirited black comedy saturated with dog-poo jokes and only intermittent yowls of mirth. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Barry Levinson's attempt to match the Farrelly Brother in adolescent goofiness has its laughs, but it's really a movie that's afraid of itself. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Our primary companion on this trip is Ben Stiller's Tim Dingman, a character so annoying that I kept wishing he would be vapoorized. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is funny, yes, but not really funny enough. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The film is neither fish nor fowl nor some arresting new entity, but a lumpish coagulation of conflicting impulses and unrealized gestures. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Envy manages the not unimpressive feat of making just about everyone in it look they wish they were somewhere else. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Colorless and flat. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Envy can't decide whether to be an eccentric black comedy or a middle-of-the-road diversion. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Ultimately more amusing than hilarious, and sometimes less than that. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: One of those cinematic curiosities that almost always fade quickly. Read more