Class Action Park
HBO Max | Release Date (Streaming): August 27, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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88
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 28, 2020
The documentary infers a good deal about Mulvihill’s underworld connections and political maneuvers without quite nailing them down. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comNick AllenAug 27, 2020
A sharp, funny, and bizarrely responsible documentary about an amusement park in Vernon, New Jersey. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattAug 27, 2020
The movie's just pure fun; a cock-eyed Valentine to a place so outrageous that death or dismemberment was an actual acceptable risk — but so was the chance to live, as one former security guard fondly recalls, in “an ‘80s movie that was real life. And it will never happen again.” Read full review
70
The New York TimesJason BaileySep 2, 2020
Class Action Park loses its footing somewhat in the closing passages; Scott and Porges don’t seem to know quite how to wrap things up, and the film’s big tonal shift is a turning point that is all but impossible to come back from. Read full review
70
ScreenCrushMatt SingerAug 27, 2020
Like the resort it captures, everything in this film is fun and games right up until the moment someone gets seriously injured. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerSep 4, 2020
Yet Porges (who pops up as an expert talking head) and co-director Chris Charles Scott III never quite hit an even tone - or rather, there's a big divide, like bouncing along on a kiddy coaster that suddenly turns into a brutal corkscrew with a massive drop at the end. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJan 23, 2024
For those interested only in a visual fleshing-out of a Wikipedia entry, Class Action Park does the job. Anyone hoping for more won’t find it in this unremarkable piece of nostalgia-bait. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneySep 7, 2020
Class Action Park tries with only partial success to capture the dissonance between the funny war stories told about that hazardous site and how awful and tragic it was that young people lost their lives there. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 27, 2020
Narrated quite drolly by comedian John Hodgman, Class Action Park is very funny in its dark way, the interviewees are all charmingly surprised that they lived through their teenage years and there’s a remarkable amount of action footage from the park, considering that it predates cellphones. (The animation by Richard Langberg is amusing, too.) Where the film has a problem is Mulvihill. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubCharles BramescoAug 27, 2020
For all its attempts to build itself into something more substantive, it’s still a day at the theme park. Read full review
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