The Mod Squad
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: March 26, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
16
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
15
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet but possessed of just enough gravity to allow us to take its people rather than its old TV series premise seriously. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
Curiously enough plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This is the kind of movie that isn't even worth renting when it comes out on video because, with the possible exception of Michael Lerner and Omar Epps dancing to show tunes, you've seen it all before. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Has an intriguing cast, a director who knows how to use his camera and a lot of sly humor. Shame about the story. When you see this many of the right elements in a lame movie, you wonder how close they came to making a better one. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Presents undercover law enforcement less as a profession than as an accessory, an excuse to pout and glower chicly, to stand around in nightclubs acting like a sullen version of the Last American Rebel. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverM. V. Moorhead
It's easy to ignore these knockoff movie versions of retro TV shows, because they're almost always atrociously made. But it can be instructive to watch them because of the template they provide for culture compare-and-contrast between the old show's era and ours. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineSandra Contreras
No one expects much from movie adaptations of TV shows but complete incoherence and boredom is a bit too much to bear. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderStaff (not credited)
An exercise in robotic filmmaking. Read full review
30
NewsweekTed Gideonse
Bad, but not criminally so. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Everyone works hard, but the results are sadly short of style and personality or irony and intelligence. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
You watch the movie in a dumbfounded stupor. Why on earth was it made? [26 March 1999, Friday, p.A]
25
USA TodayMike Clark
Clean up the language, and this little roach of a movie could play the bottom half of a double bill with Rowan and Martin's “The Maltese Bippy.” [26 March 1999, Life, p.9E]
20
SalonMary Elizabeth Williams
One of the most mindless, shamelessly lazy films. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleRussell Smith
A sketchy, half-baked, stylistically inconsistent movie that scarcely even pretends to care whether it makes sense or not. Read full review
20
Film ThreatTom Meek
Add another one to the scrap heap of trendy, nostalgic, 60's and 70's TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration starved minds in Hollywood. Read full review
20
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The story moves so slowly and obviously, you don't even need to be in the theater very much (or your living room when the video comes out) to follow it. Read full review
10
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
Torturously boring. Read full review
10
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Feels like the most shameless effort yet in the renewed exploitation of the youth market. Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Bound to wind up as one of 1999's worst films. Read full review
0
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Here's what I really like about The Mod Squad: Nobody in it gives a damn. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch. Read full review
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