What's The Worst That Could Happen 2001

Critics score:
10 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The balance of the movie consists of Kevin and Max taking turns zapping each other for the thrill of the sport as the story devolves into a series of wacky set pieces. Read more

Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: What's the worst that could happen? This witless mess of a farce starring Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito, that's what. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Unlikely to inspire rioting at the box office, unless it's by people demanding their money back. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A dreary walk down comedy's Memory Lane. Read more

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times: What's the worst that could happen? That the summer movie season won't produce a better comedy than this lame Martin Lawrence/Danny DeVito crime caper. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: The movies come out desperate instead of deadpan. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Veers unsteadily from believable caper to overblown cartoon. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Leaves moviegoers little to root for. Read more

Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: Despite a good plot idea and some interesting characters, the movie is rarely amusing, because it keeps trying to force the humor. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: This is the kind of do-nothing movie you eventually quit watching on an airplane. Unfortunately, theaters don't supply SkyMall catalogues to take up the slack. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A worst-case comedy that answers its own title question in every scene. Read more

Globe and Mail: Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Far from amounting to anything at all, except a fretless exercise in low-altitude farce. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: An uninvolving bore -- a caper comedy that replaces humor and cleverness with tedium and stupidity. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Has too many characters, not enough plot, and a disconnect between the two stars' acting styles. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: I don't know when a bad movie has made me laugh as much as this one. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: The biggest misstep, though, is running the movie's best sight gag into the ground. Read more

Time Out: Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: It recalls those ragged '60s caper pics that now seem to congest cable channels in which the leads frequently play second fiddle to nutty supporting players. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: A pinpoint study in what not to do with an adaptation, as well as in why altering a well-known fictional character to suit a poorly cast star is almost always a bad idea. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: I'd rather watch a forgotten houseplant dehydrate and die. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Suffocated by its own plot. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Now and then sputters to comic life but more usually wheezes along. Read more