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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Limp and lifeless, this Next Door neighbor should be evicted to DVD. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Chan's new all-ages vehicle is smooth like oatmeal. It's hard to imagine anyone being offended, except fans of good comedy. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: The Spy Next Door makes The Pacifier look like Citizen Kane. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The Spy Next Door follows Brian Levant's long track record of pandering, PG-rated family comedies that look like bad TV (and sometimes are adapted from it)... Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The film's so formulaic your 6-year-old will be ticking off the plot points as they lope by. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: The fight sequences (with obvious doubles) are anemic, and Chan's traditional outtakes over the closing credits wear pitifully thin. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: At some point, the social mores that functionally banned most other forms of ethnic stereotyping will catch up with the Slavs, a sad day indeed for middling screenwriters. Read more
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The script -- which took three people to write -- is barely coherent, and it's unclear whether Brian Levant was even on set when he directed. All that's left for us to enjoy are the action scenes, and frankly most of those are a little depressing. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Duller than a Monday night at the cobweb museum... Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The plot may be forgettable, but the execution is frantic and funny. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Spy Next Door is precisely what you would expect from a PG-rated Jackie Chan comedy with that plot. If that's what you're looking for, you won't be disappointed. It's not what I was looking for. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Chan's strong suit now is his skill as a comic actor, and Levant and his writers don't know how to tap it. Read more
Kara Nesvig, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The Spy Next Door is so hokey that I couldn't help but wonder if I was watching a campy sendup. It opens with "Secret Agent Man," for god's sake! Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Chan's comedic gifts and still-nimble moves are wasted in a string of unimaginative household calamities and practical jokes. Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: Chan is actually a fairly likeable hero and his elocution, never great, is at least passable in this latest romp. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Chan's traditional gag reel that rolls with the final credits offers the most entertainment. Read more
Lael Loewenstein, Variety: It's a sad day for Jackie Chan fans when the action-comedy star is reduced to a vehicle as lame as The Spy Next Door. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: The Spy Next Door is immediately forgettable family entertainment, suitable for release only in the dung-heap month of January. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Yet another lazily kid-pleasing comedy about a man unprepared for fatherhood who's suddenly saddled with children who hate his guts and whom he must win over in order to make time with their hot single mom. Read more