Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 9, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
9
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
0
Negative:
13
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30
MovielineAlison WillmoreSep 9, 2011
That Bucky Larson's humor is stuck at a toilet-centric grade school level is less damning than how little of that or any humor it contains - the film, directed by Tom Brady (The Hot Chick), sets up scene after scene that wanders around in the general vicinity of a joke idea without ever approaching anything like a punchline. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 10, 2011
Never thought we'd say this about a movie, but Bucky Larson probably doesn't wring as much out of recurring bodily-fluid gags as it could. Read full review
25
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreSep 9, 2011
It's an ugly movie to look at and a faintly nauseating one to sit through, truth be told. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczSep 9, 2011
Bucky Larson is a one-note joke played over and over and over. Read full review
20
Time OutMatt SingerSep 13, 2011
This movie is dire, soul-crushing stuff. Read full review
20
Boxoffice MagazineDavid EhrlichSep 12, 2011
Of course, Bucky Larson isn't one of the year's worst films because its laughs are poisoned and problematic - rather, it's one of the year's worst films because there aren't any laughs at all. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 9, 2011
The scenario makes for an inept, lazy R-rated movie whose sole purpose is as a glossary of euphemisms for genitalia and sexual acts. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinSep 9, 2011
Apparently no one told Ricci she was acting in a comedy, not a touching drama about a young woman overcoming a formative trauma to achieve her dreams. Read full review
10
VarietyAndrew BarkerSep 10, 2011
One of the most astonishingly unfunny films of this or any other year. Read full review
10
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierSep 10, 2011
This god-awful, unfunny, stinkingly putrid sketch-comic movie has exactly one snicker-worthy moment, involving Kevin Nealon and a stolen grape. But watching the rest of it will make you whine. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. ScottSep 10, 2011
This may be the worst movie Pauly Shore has ever been in. Think about that. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSep 9, 2011
Unfortunately, the R rating will prohibit the target audience -- namely teenage boys who find penis jokes endlessly hilarious - from seeing this relentlessly unfunny and vulgar effort until it shows up on video and cable. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesSep 15, 2011
What does startle is how tiresome it all is. Read full review
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