Idle Hands 1999

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Excruciatingly unfunny! Read more

Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Creepy in all the wrong ways. Read more

Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: Even pretensions toward the humorous and hip cannot save this blood-drenched film from its innate tastelessness! Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Dumb, blood-soaked, undeniably kinetic teen Guignol bash! Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Its mixture of slapstick humour and gore -- produced by the flying fingers -- gives new meaning to the phrase digital effects. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: I admit to having chuckled once; that's why the movie gets a generous one star instead of none. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Samples other teen horror movies like a video DJ with a tape deck, exhibiting high spirits and a crazed comic energy! Read more

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com: It's a bad thriller and a bad comedy! Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: When a movie sets out to be awful and achieves its goal, does that make it a success? Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Too calculated by half and underwritten by about as much, as witlessly unaware of its faltering sense of comedy as its stoner-dude heroes are of everyday reality. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A heavy-handed disappointment saturated in tired movie blood. Read more