Breakfast of Champions
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: September 17, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
9
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
An adaptation that can rightfully be called brilliant. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
It's great unruly fun. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon. Read full review
59
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
Just isn't funny enough to sustain the lunacy.
50
VarietyDerek Elley
Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
This starry ensemble dazzles, but the film never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes, which are deeply moving. Read full review
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
A crude, manic and embarrassingly unfunny satire that feels off from beginning to end.
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Among the year's biggest disappointments. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Fails in a pretty spectacular manner but, to its everlasting credit, it goes down swinging and sometimes even connecting. Read full review
40
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Quite a spectacle, but the movie falls flat.
40
Film.comRobert Horton
A weirdly stillborn experience. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Vonnegut's brand of juvenile surrealism...doesn't age especially well...but it could hardly be worse served than to be brought to the screen with such ham-fisted literal-mindedness. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAmy Taubin
Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
This is the most-off-the-mark adaptation of a novel since Brian DePalma's what-was-that "Bonfire of the Vanities."
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
It's both amazing and depressing how much talent goes to waste in the lame adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1973 absurdist novel. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it. Read full review
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