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Offers more mild amusement than outright laughs...
David Rooney, Variety
Overview
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.
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59%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's a setup so easy it borders on facile, but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast.
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
There are some truly wacky parallels with Shakespeare's play.
Steven Rosen, Denver Post
Fresh
It's simple, sizzly and very funny.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
The fun is infectious -- the puns, in-jokes and referential asides will keep Shakespeare buffs busy and the rest of the audience entertained even as some punch lines zing over their heads.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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