Welcome to Collinwood
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: October 4, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
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Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
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14
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8
Negative:
0
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80
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
It's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best "old neighborhood" project since Christopher Walken kinda romanced Cyndi Lauper in "The Opportunists." Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The farce is energetically written, breezily acted, and never quite as dumb as the lunkheads it's about. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Filled with a sweet, loopy sensibility and some fresh comic turns, Welcome to Collinwood is a low-budget American film that falls into the good-but-slight category. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Clearly a spiritual descendant of the old Looney Toons cartoons; it's not hard to imagine Daffy, Bugs, Porky and their pals in the starring roles here. And that's a cinematic pedigree worth cherishing.
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
At some point we're flashed a junkyard billboard telling us that Collinwood is the ''Beirut of Cleveland'' - yes, but here, it's by way of Looney Tunes. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
There isn't much else to the film beyond slapstick antics and professional gloss, but the results are diverting enough, in great measure because it's essentially a scene-by-scene remake Mario Monicelli's 1958 satire, "Big Deal on Madonna Street." Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Populated by a great ensemble cast and oozing a grubby sort of charm. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDana Stevens
What the movie lacks in polish, though, it makes up for in pluck, enthusiasm and slapstick shamelessness. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
A low-key charmer that balances half a dozen winning performances, Welcome To Collinwood's momentum occasionally stalls, and it doesn't always produce laughs. Read full review
63
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Doesn't have the polish of "Ocean's Eleven" - but it does have George Clooney. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
It takes us about half the film to adjust to its quirkiness, and we leave the theater with both laughter cramps and the feeling that it should have been funnier a lot longer. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Funny and not-funny, slapstick and slapdash, Welcome to Collinwood is a seriously uneven caper comedy in which a bunch of really fine character actors get to act really, really silly. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
Even at a mere 82 minutes, the movie is guilty of killing time. It's not a complete Kaputschnik, but it's sure no Bellini. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A wacky and eccentric heist comedy with many virtues, but it is also a remake of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958), a movie much beloved by me. Some scenes are so close to the original it's kind of uncanny. Read full review
60
Washington PostDesson Thomson
This ensemble comedy has its inventively funny moments. But ultimately, it gets a little too cute for its own good. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The climactic sight gag is lifted from Monicelli's movie like a diamond from a jeweler's window. Read full review
60
Village VoiceEd Park
An anti-"Rififi" in which nearly everybody loses their cool, not after the big score goes down but repeatedly and neurotically throughout. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
With a dream cast that also includes Patricia Clarkson and, in a cameo, a tattooed George Clooney, fullness of narrative may not have struck the filmmakers as key, and their film feels slight, as if it were an extended short, albeit one made by the smartest kids in class. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Anthony and Joe Russo place too much faith in the ability of their talented thesps to carry the day over precariously thin material. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
A diversion so soggy that even the few combustible comic disasters fail to light a flame under the lukewarm laughs. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Excitement trumps incompetence as one colorful loser recruits another. Pretty soon, the screen is filled with hip actors playing clueless lowlifes, pretending they're in a Bizarro World production of ''Ocean's Eleven.'' Read full review
40
SalonCharles Taylor
A bigger problem is that since the movie is a straight remake that reprises many of the original's scenes, we have those scenes playing in our heads, and the Russos' execution just isn't up to Monicelli's. It's painful to see gags that worked so beautifully fall flat, or wither and die because of indifferent timing. Read full review
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