Black Sheep 2007

Critics score:
70 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: I suspect [director Jonathan] King's next film will be better. Read more

New York Magazine/Vulture: Absurdly, magnificently gruesome. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Stunning vistas of New Zealand's rolling countryside aren't enough to carry this lame 2006 horror spoof about a lab experiment gone awry. Read more

Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times: Like Snakes on a Plane, the whole movie is essentially contained within the title. All the picture itself does is to repeat that concept for 87 minutes. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Slickly made but not deeply felt, and while [director] King shows signs that he may one day make a film as rich as Peter Jackson at his peak, next time he should try to get the audience to care equally about the eaters and the eaten. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: Rife with bloody gore and funny gags. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: This lurid lunacy from New Zealand is a horror-humor cross-breed of animal lore and giddy gore. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A strenuous goof, one that will test your tolerance for the violence of the lambs. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Anyone lacking a taste for red meat will likely say bah to the one-joke juiciness of Black Sheep, but ovine enthusiasts will be licking their chops. Read more

Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: ...Black Sheep never rises above sensation and splatter, or goes beyond the one thing it does best: It bites. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: It's still relatively early in 2007, but this wry comedy about sheep gone baaaaad promises to be the best vampire-flesh-eating livestock movie of the year. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: If you're in the mood for something sillier, Black Sheep awaits. There are plenty of laughs, but don't let that fool you: This one's not for the weak of stomach. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: A one-joke skit that trots in a straight line, and your enjoyment of it will depend entirely on how many times you need to see gonzo sheep rip out human entrails. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The most gruesomely satisfying spectacle for hard-core environmentalists would be that of a group of foreign investors in the evil enterprise being gobbled up by a flock of rampaging sheep. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Jonathan King's film is an intentionally moronic mash-up of horror cliches bound to delight all fans of grade-Z entertainment. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Black Sheep is never very frightening, but it's clever and fun, with a memorable amount of humor and gore. Imagine if the Monty Python folks made the killer rabbit part from Holy Grail into a full-length movie. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Globe and Mail: Veteran music-video director Jonathan King's first feature film mixes black humour and over-the-top gore in an old-school horror romp that harkens back to the early films of Peter Jackson. Read more

Cliff Doerksen, Time Out: Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: The performances may be uneven, but the flawed characters are believable, the sheep surprisingly scary and the animal antics often laugh-out-loud funny. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Only a 12-year-old boy would view this collection of squishy grotesqueries and squirting arteries as perfect Friday-night entertainment. Read more

Jay Weissberg, Variety: Endearingly amusing. Read more