Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: March 2, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinFeb 26, 2012
In a timid comic world, Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie feels genuinely dangerous and transgressive: it makes a virtue of going way too far because other comedies don't go far enough. Read full review
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Village VoiceNick PinkertonFeb 28, 2012
In every swelling musical cue, Billion Dollar Movie displays open contempt for friendship, family, love, sex, heroism, and everything lofty and beautiful that multiplex movies have reduced to cant. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineNick SchagerFeb 26, 2012
In the race to achieve unadulterated fourth-wall breakage, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is the new pack leader. Read full review
65
NPRIan BuckwalterMar 2, 2012
If these experiments in shock comedy don't always work, there's a certain courageousness in the way Tim and Eric refuse to back down from them, as well as the gusto with which guest stars like Reilly, Robert Loggia, Will Ferrell, and Jeff Goldblum throw themselves into the film's gonzo aesthetic. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeEthan GilsdorfMar 1, 2012
See it in the right sick frame of mind, and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie can be shockingly and terribly hilarious. Or not. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottApr 6, 2012
The surrealist and decidedly bizarre humor of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim is, to put it mildly, an acquired taste -- and there's no guarantee you'll ever actually acquire it. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineTodd GilchristMar 3, 2012
A shrewdly understated satire of feel-good dramas disguised as gross-out inside jokes, Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie should alternately leave some viewers in stitches while making others quickly leave the theater. Read full review
60
Time OutMatthew LoveFeb 28, 2012
Fans will love the funny and subversive moments; anyone who didn't "get" them premakeover may simply feel like they've been sitting in a "brown bath" for 93 minutes. Don't ask. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 3, 2012
In their move from 11-minute episodes on TV to 94 minutes, Tim and Eric have lost none of their hilarity or irreverence. But this time around, they somehow manage to be tedious, too. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 1, 2012
At times, the movie has the look and feel of the cheaply made late-night commercials that it mercilessly, and occasionally hilariously, mocks. Read full review
40
MovielineAlison WillmoreMar 1, 2012
You really need chemical aids to be able to sit through something so unabashedly half-assed. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFeb 29, 2012
Viewers approaching Tim and Eric's comedy for the first time will probably be baffled by their popularity and success. Their Billion Dollar Movie will not win new converts, and their stretched-out routines demonstrate the old saw about less sometimes being more. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeFeb 26, 2012
Audiences attuned to Tim & Eric's weird wavelength will find plenty of guffaws in the first half, but a plot this thin can't sustain comedy based on discomfort; the film is so much of a good thing one starts to wonder if the thing is good in the first place. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAndy WebsterMar 2, 2012
A disposable trifle of fleeting rewards that - like many a feature built around a "Saturday Night Live" sketch - shows its seams after three minutes. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesGlenn WhippMar 1, 2012
Cult comedy team Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim take the mechanics of the Funny or Die website and stretch it past the breaking point with their movie. Read full review
30
VarietyJohn AndersonFeb 26, 2012
Recycles characters and plotlines from their show, along with badly made commercials and faux PSAs about inane subjects, a gambit that dates back to such comedy compilations as "Kentucky Fried Movie" or even "Laugh-In." What Tim & Eric has that those others lacked are the many sexually outre, scatological and degrading moments that seem intended to shock -- and perhaps will, if you're really young or really old. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoMar 2, 2012
For Tim and Eric, what's funny is what's odd, ultra-cheap, pathetic or scurvy - and what's funniest of all is that some people just don't get it. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMar 1, 2012
A lazy assemblage of sketch-comedy raunch, mock-schlock TV ads, and ideas that even the writers of "Mall Cop" and "Observe and Report" would have tossed. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMar 1, 2012
Appearances from Jeff Goldblum, Zach Galifianakis and John C. Reilly help some, but all the mincing from Heidecker and Wareheim, the wanna-be, gross-out humor and THE CONSTANT SCREAMING get tiring. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFeb 29, 2012
As faithful readers will know, I have a few cult followers who enjoy my reviews of bad movies. These have been collected in the books "I Hated, Hated, Hated, HATED This Movie"; "Your Movie Sucks," and "A Horrible Experience of Unendurable Length." This movie is so bad, it couldn't even inspire a review worthy of one of those books. I have my standards. Read full review
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New York PostKyle SmithMar 2, 2012
Tim & Eric seem driven by a hatred of the audience and a wish to punish the same. Every episode of every sitcom I've ever seen is funnier than this movie, and I used to watch "Just Shoot Me." Read full review
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