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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: A movie desperate for laughs. Read more
Anthony Breznican, Associated Press: Envy crawls to its finish through a minefield of poor taste and comedic misfires. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: A shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: With so many dubious elements at play, even the half-good ideas get lost in the shuffle. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Wrenchingly unfunny. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... one of the worst comedies I've ever seen. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Pure poo. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: An unusually static affair. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A weirdly airless disaster. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: A woeful little comedy that runs out of steam shortly after its opening sequence. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A labored misfire. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Far too much of it is unfunny. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: I giggled, with a level of disbelief verging on awe, at the notion that people actually woke up each morning to shoot this movie thinking that they were engaged in an act of entertainment (or sanity). Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Envy is both doomed and destined to become a cult film. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Everyone involved in Envy has done better work before. Envy isn't good for them or us. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: What's frustrating about the half-cocked comedy that follows is that it contains so many inspired moments and offers plenty of laughs, yet suffers from the lack of a unifying directorial intelligence. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Envy isn't a comedy so much as a welter of mugging, pratfalls and goofy attitudes struggling to coalesce into a comedy. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: One of the lamest comedies in recent memory. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A mean-spirited black comedy saturated with dog-poo jokes and only intermittent yowls of mirth. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Barry Levinson's attempt to match the Farrelly Brother in adolescent goofiness has its laughs, but it's really a movie that's afraid of itself. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Our primary companion on this trip is Ben Stiller's Tim Dingman, a character so annoying that I kept wishing he would be vapoorized. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is funny, yes, but not really funny enough. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The film is neither fish nor fowl nor some arresting new entity, but a lumpish coagulation of conflicting impulses and unrealized gestures. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Envy manages the not unimpressive feat of making just about everyone in it look they wish they were somewhere else. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Envy can't decide whether to be an eccentric black comedy or a middle-of-the-road diversion. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Ultimately more amusing than hilarious, and sometimes less than that. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: One of those cinematic curiosities that almost always fade quickly. Read more