Drowning Mona
Columbia TriStar | Release Date: March 3, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
7
Negative:
20
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Each of the characters is dull and boorish instead of witty and urbane. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
I didn't laugh once. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A comedy murder mystery gone seriously astray, boasts an immensely talented cast .
10
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
With a sneer and a wink, Drowning Mona plunges us into a fresh deluge of idiotic Americana . Read full review
20
Film.comGemma Files
An endlessly contrived exercise in self-referential "black comedy", can't help but strike me as no kind of triumph of anything over anything. Read full review
10
Film.comSean Means
One imagines what the failed farce Drowning Mona would have been like in the hands of the Coen brothers. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
The only vaguely funny moments are courtesy William Fichtner, as the dead woman's husband, and Jamie Lee Curtis in full metal drag as his furtive squeeze. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Excuse me, but didn't Bette Midler already play this role? Read full review
10
NewsweekTed Gideonse
As dumb as the film is, the actors escape relatively unscathed.
20
SalonCharles Taylor
The movie is flat-footed, and the pacing gives you time to rest between laughs. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A funny comedy for about 90 seconds. Then Bette Midler goes off a cliff. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
There are enough mullets to win this movie a Stanley Cup.
20
SlateDavid Edelstein
The script plays goofy games, stopping the action for Tarantino-style small talk; piling on alternate, "Rashomon"-style flashbacks; and divulging its characters' secrets in no particular order. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
A dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery. Read full review
20
TimeRichard Schickel
There's a definite limit to the number of moron jokes we can absorb in 100 minutes, and their movie exceeds it.
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Is there anything so painful as a comedy whose every gag falls flat and then lies there, flopping like a dying flounder? Read full review
25
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
The bad-taste murder farce is just an excuse for a bunch of actors to go slumming and ride about in - ha, ha - Yugos.
10
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A white-trash black comedy, a caustic working-class whodunit in which the solution to the murder mystery takes a distant back seat to countless barbs and jibes tossed in the direction of the mostly imbecilic cast of characters. Read full review
20
Village VoiceAmy Taubin
Bette Midler and Danny De Vito mug more shamelessly than usual. Read full review
10
Washington PostDesson Thomson
I watched Mona. I felt like drowning. Read full review
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