Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie 2012

Andy Webster, New York Times: A disposable trifle of fleeting rewards that - like many a feature built around a "Saturday Night Live" sketch - shows its seams after three minutes. Read more

Matthew Love, Time Out: Fans will love the funny and subversive moments; anyone who didn't "get" them premakeover may simply feel like they've been sitting in a "brown bath" for 93 minutes. Don't ask. Read more

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times: Tim and Eric's man-child characters, who look at the world with wide eyes and total trust, must be an acquired taste. And while fans of the television show may enjoy this movie, this reviewer did not. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: In a timid comic world, Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie feels genuinely dangerous and transgressive: it makes a virtue of going way too far because other comedies don't go far enough. Read more

Jake Coyle, Associated Press: With limitless absurdity comes a kind of glossy-eyed meaninglessness and extreme tastelessness. Read more

Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe: See it in the right sick frame of mind, and "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie'' can be shockingly and terribly hilarious. Or not. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The laughs dry up even as the gross-out material grows more, uh, fluid. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: If the "Billion Dollar" idea was to attract new viewers, someone should get their money back. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The vicious mirth is hit-or-miss but contagious. Read more

Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Needless to say, this freewheeling parade of bizarreness is not everyone's cup of shrim. Chances are good that the people whose cup of shrim it is already know who they are. Read more

Amanda Mae Meyncke, Film.com: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie isn't for everyone, but for the few, the brave, it's extremely strange and hilarious. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Adult Swim's cult series makes awkward stab at the big screen. Read more

Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: If it's a Funny or Die movie, where's the "die" button? Read more

Ian Buckwalter, NPR: Even with a measly $3 million dollar price tag, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie feels like the work of comedic outlaws getting away with something. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: So bad, it's bad. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: It would be insulting to refer to "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" as amateurish - insulting to amateurs everywhere. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: A lazy assemblage of sketch- comedy raunch, mock-schlock TV ads, and ideas that even the writers of Mall Cop and Observe and Report would have tossed. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: They've gathered a cult following by doing comedy sketches that were deliberately bad, and now they've made a movie that is more of the same for 92 minutes, and it must have taken them a great deal of work to maintain their low standard. Read more

Leah Rozen, TheWrap: Had Billion Dollar Movie been just eight minutes on the Funny or Die website, where Heidecker and Wareheim have often appeared, it might have worked. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: Various articles describe Tim and Eric's style as 'avant garde' but we remain unconvinced. Read more

Anita Li, Toronto Star: What works for a two-minute sketch can blunder on the big screen. And for this feature-length comedy, it bombs. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: Even fans of their Cartoon Network series or those simply familiar with the pair via YouTube will likely find the extended version of their pathos-and-pain-driven comedy hard to digest. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: In every swelling musical cue, Billion Dollar Movie displays open contempt for friendship, family, love, sex, heroism, and everything lofty and beautiful that multiplex movies have reduced to cant. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: At times, the movie has the look and feel of the cheaply made late-night commercials that it mercilessly, and occasionally hilariously, mocks. Read more