The Choirboys
Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 23, 1977 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
21
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
7

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
Washington PostGary Arnold
Some of the jokes are so raucously or goofily low-minded that you may laugh out of a kind of shocked weakness. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Philip French
Aldrich is at his most crudely anarchic and macho celebrating the saintly community service and childish off-duty antics of Los Angeles's hard-nosed uniformed cops, starring Charles Durning, Perry King et al. [25 Feb 2007, p.6]
37
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
To my mind, this is one of Robert Aldrich’s worst films, but clearly not everyone agrees. Read full review
30
NewsweekDavid Ansen
[Aldrich's] aiming so low in The Choirboys that he's even lost his technical competence; the movie's not just fetid, it's inept. [02 Jan 1978, p.59]
25
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
The film features a great cast and is adapted from a funny and moving book by Joseph Wambaugh, but the result is an abysmal, disjointed mess. Read full review
20
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The book's humour was the ribald and understandable explosion of a safety valve; here it is merely an offensive display of stereotyping, sexism and patronising insincerity. A travestied misrepresentation and a notably complete failure. Read full review
20
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
When Robert Aldrich's filmmaking is good, it's very, very good; and when it's bad it's awful. This cheap-looking ultra-raunchy alleged comedy about policemen leaves no stone unturned in its exploitation of vulgarity. Read full review
20
EmpireKim Newman
A disjointed mish-M.A.S.H. of cliched comedy and misplaced observational wit. Read full review
10
The New York TimesVincent Canby
The movie, which Mr. Aldrich directed from a screenplay by Christopher Knopf, is cheap and nasty without having any redeeming vulgarity and absolutely no conviction of truth. Read full review
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