Multiplicity
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 17, 1996 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
9
Negative:
3
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60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Despite the obvious potential for comic disaster, the results are only intermittently amusing. Keaton's Kinney is such a selfish, lemon-lipped wet blanket, you can't help wishing he'd been diminished a little with each cloning, until there was nothing left of him at all. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Ramis’ talented, underused SCTV colleague Eugene Levy makes a brief, welcome appearance as a nuttily dim cement contractor, but he’s a zany interlude in an otherwise muted, unzany tale. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Multiplicity weaves such an uninteresting plot around its bland, generic principals that it rarely reaches the absurdist heights its premise demands. Read full review
50
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Unfortunately, in trying to rein in the material and impose some kind of closure, the film-makers plump for an inadequate, bourgeois sit-com mode and the movie evaporates before your eyes. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, and hats off to Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton and - very funny in a supporting turn - Michael Keaton. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The early scenes are amusing and true to life. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Multiplicity is a pleasant comedy, in the blandest sense of that adjective. It's what you call a billboard movie - a quick-pitch concept easily advertised with snappy star images, flat in its execution and merely a passing distraction to an audience. [17 July 1996, p.3D]
40
Rolling StonePeter Travers
By the fourth clone, played as a babbling simpleton, Keaton has exhausted the gimmick and the audience. I’d trade a dozen Dougs for one Beetlejuice. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The special effects are impressive, but they don’t add up to a movie. Read full review
40
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
It's not easy to sit through the movie spawned by this notion, though, proving once again that a picture can be simultaneously high in concept and low in entertainment value. [18 July 1996]
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