Lost & Found 1999

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: It makes Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls seem like Shakespeare in Love. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A rancid little nothing of a movie! Read more

Eric Harrison, Los Angeles Times: Nothing but a cynical, astonishingly inept attempt to copy Mary's formula. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It would be difficult to imagine material more wrong for Spade than Lost & Found. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A mundane sitcom with feature pretensions, the kind where the comic 'situation' is simply a coat-rack for hanging a rag-tag assortment of inflated sight gags and telegraphed punch lines. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Too many of the jokes are predictable, and, as a result, not especially funny. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A movie about characters of limited intelligence, who wander through the lonely wastes of ancient and boring formulas. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Why was the sight of scrawny Woody Allen kissing pretty Diane Keaton never revolting, while scrawny David Spade kissing beautiful Sophie Marceau in Lost & Found is the creepiest cinematic sight of the year? Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Spade serves as both star and co-writer of this lame, crass romantic comedy. Most of the jokes he's written fall flat, and his delivery isn't much better. Read more

Nicole Arthur, Washington Post: If the standards for feature films starring former Saturday Night Live cast members weren't already so low, you could be forgiven for thinking Lost & Found was dragging them down. Read more