Problem Child 2 1991

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune: How exciting can flatulence jokes still be, once you've seen them on cable? Read more

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times: Louder and dumber, more preposterous, unfunny and pointless. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: [Problem Child 2 may] be the most sheerly repulsive kiddie movie ever filmed. Read more

Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer: The kid in Problem Child 2 is so obnoxious that when his divorcing parents engage in a bitter custody dispute, the loser gets to keep him. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Bad kids are big business, which is the only explanation for Problem Child 2. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: I'm probably getting awfully moralistic, but couldn't the geniuses who devise entertainment for tots have come up with something a bit more, uh, responsible? Read more

Time Out: A faint heh-heh might escape your lips at the antics of an Ellen Barkin lookalike tot (Schwan), but mostly it's predictable, hopelessly over-extended stuff. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: At times this poor version of a sitcom seems written by five-year-olds for five-year-olds, so much so that one suspects its script was fingerpainted. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Junior Healy (Michael Oliver), problem child and the movies' best argument for infanticide, is back and no one is more surprised than I am. Read more