Carpool
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: August 23, 1996 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
15
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
1
Negative:
9
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40
EmpireDarren Bignell
The whole madcap production is at best faintly amusing, at worst, painfully protracted Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Things might have been okay if this film had gone someplace, anyplace, but it stalls early, then coasts through an hour of minimally-amusing material before screeching to an amazingly improbable stop. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyTy Burr
Carpool is affably stupid Saturday-matinee fare -- good for opiating the kids for a few hours -- but let's just say it's no Big Bully. Read full review
30
VarietyStaff (Not credited)
Arthur Hiller's pacing is crude, but that seems to be the point. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
It's a shame Arnold is stuck on the loudmouth clod schtick, because there are moments he's downright pleasant on screen. But in Carpool, these moments are kept to a minimum. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineStaff (not credited)
Indifferently directed and almost aggressively tedious, we'd call it cliched if they'd even bothered getting the cliches right. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Nothing about the movie makes much sense. Read full review
20
Washington PostRita Kempley
Arthur Hiller, who last directed the sour "The Babe" -- not the one about that sweet pig -- finds even less to work with in TV veteran Don Rhymer's stupid screenplay. Read full review
10
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Wide-eyed and mirthlessly peppy, Mr. Arnold soon wears out his welcome as a bumbling would-be bank robber who commandeers a group of young hostages. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesJack Mathews
Warner Bros. quietly releases Hiller's latest film, Carpool, without advance critics screenings, without more than a whisper of promotion, without warning or apology to the lost souls who might wander in to see it. Read full review
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