My Name Is Bruce
Image Entertainment | Release Date: October 31, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
6
Negative:
7
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75
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
What's surprising is that the film has genuine laughs and smart-aleck asides that will keep even nonfans happy (although it helps if you at least like the genre). Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
It's lame, corny, Ed Woodishly amateurish -- all of which is as lovable as the big lug himself. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
If you don't already know who Bruce Campbell is, it will set you searching for other Bruce Campbell films on the theory that they can't all be like this. Start with "Evil Dead II," is my advice. Not to forget "Bubba Ho-Tep." In fact, start with them before My Name Is Bruce, which is low midrange in the Master's oeuvre. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Campbell fans will get a kick out of it. The rest of the world will likely find this spoof a little too insular and indulgent. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianStan Hall
It gets by on its concept for a little while but too often mistakes stupid-stupid for clever-stupid. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
Cheerfully embracing his status as cult B-movie genre megastar even as he sends it up, Bruce Campbell's sophomore directorial excursion, My Name is Bruce, is a big in-joke of definite if limited appeal. Read full review
50
Film ThreatScott Mendelson
My Name Is Bruce can be read as a man coming to terms with the career that he has been dealt, or it can be read as simply a trashy B-movie directed by the man who knows best. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
While sporadically funny, the sophomoric My Name Is Bruce is no "Bubba Ho-Tep," the movie where Campbell unforgettably played Elvis Presley as a nursing home patient battling a mummy with the help of John F. Kennedy. But Campbell's fans can feel free to add a star or two. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Perhaps because Campbell is a purist at heart, My Name Is Bruce is as awful as anything he has done - a broadly silly gore comedy in which no gag is too cartoonish to be indulged in at least once and preferably three times. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
The only things missing from this unfunny Campbell love fest are a passable script, Sam Raimi's inventiveness, and a level of sophistication beyond nose-picking and ass grabs. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Filled with awful, recycled jokes. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
A dull, tired mess. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleReyhan Harmanci
It is exactly as one might imagine it: slapstick humor, gross-out monsters and more self-referential digs per minute than "Arrested Development." Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Willing as Campbell is to Shatner-ize himself, his movie will appeal only to true believers. Read full review
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