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Susan Stark, Detroit News: An uncommonly delightful comedy for the family audience. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Fairly entertaining, albeit in a bland sort of way. Read more
Dave Kehr, New York Times: Fitfully amusing. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: It's tepid, predictable stuff, staged with no special imagination. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Truly it is a peculiar curse upon the world, this high-concept joke that refuses to die. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: One of those rare American remakes of a French film that preserves the flavor of the original and even improves upon it. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Is, as the French say, amusing enough. Read more
Andy Seiler, USA Today: Despite a Chicago setting, it's the American cast members who seem out of place, flailing as they struggle with their cartoon-ish roles. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Not only microwaves what is already four-day-old fish in Paris, but lets the original director, screenwriters, and stars do the reheating. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Curiously unfunny. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Some of these gags are very funny, and it's a pleasure to see Reno as something other than a villain in an English language picture. Read more