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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe results are comical and unexpected -- and just a bit eerie.
- 70The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe screenplay, by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, based on a French film, has enough sharp gags and plot twists to sustain it, with an ending that manages to be nice.
- 70NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenRon Howard's version is--no surprise--a funny, audience-friendly entertainment that's ultimately less scathing satire than conventional Hollywood romantic comedy outfitted in trendy new clothes.
- 70The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinWith down-to-earth comic instincts, it simply invests its story with a loud ring of truth.
- 50SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirBleach out the colors, backdate the wardrobes, insert Gary Cooper and Rosalind Russell and you've got one of Frank Capra's lesser films.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovNeither a revelation nor a total wash, EDtv is instead solid comic filmmaking. I just can't help but think it could have been so much more.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisSan Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisThe laserdisc of media movies - it plays fine, but it's clunky and cumbersome.
- 40SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinHoward and his writers are so in love with their own hip self-consciousness that it's a wonder they don't feature film critics discussing their movie.
- 40VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyA certain staleness hangs over the proceedings despite the best efforts of the cast and the fun-minded creative team.
- 37Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversSatire in a blanket of bland.