The Mod Squad 1999

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Chicago Reader: An exercise in robotic filmmaking. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet but possessed of just enough gravity to allow us to take its people rather than its old TV series premise seriously. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: This isn't a horrible film. It's just no good. Read more

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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch. Read more

Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: At the end, theater exit signs are welcome beacons. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is the kind of movie that isn't even worth renting when it comes out on video because, with the possible exception of Michael Lerner and Omar Epps dancing to show tunes, you've seen it all before. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Mod Squad has an intriguing cast, a director who knows how to use his camera and a lot of sly humor. Shame about the story. Read more

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com: Is it possible to try too hard without making any effort whatsoever? Because that seems to be the one slim accomplishment of The Mod Squad. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: This latest bigscreen retrofitting of a vintage TV series (1968-73) feels like the most shameless effort yet in the renewed exploitation of the youth market. Read more

Justine Elias, Village Voice: If the makers of the new Mod Squad had really studied their source material, they would have noticed how weak it was to begin with, and ended this mess after 60, rather than 94, minutes of pain. Read more