Big Daddy
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 25, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
15
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Big Daddy should be reported to the child welfare office. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
Recycling the regressive humor of his (Sandler’s) previous films, it piles on so much sentimentality that you wonder how anyone could consider him a renegade. [25 June 1999, Friday, p.A]
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Sandler being Chaplinesque isn't pretty; he's just doing his smart-aleck slacker shtick with a moister eye. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
The film lacks the moronic consistency that graces the Sandlerian oeuvre at its most pristine. Read full review
20
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Dismal. Lame. Not funny. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Nasty to women, cruel to old people and tosses in a cardboard gay couple for gratuitous laughs. It's also got one of those annoying soundtracks that lays rock music right over the dialogue -- as if it wanted to distract us from it. Read full review
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