Rotten
Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin.
John Skow, TIME Magazine
Overview
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
Director and cast
- Carl Reiner Director
- Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson
- Bernadette Peters as Marie Kimble Johnson
- Catlin Adams as Patty Bernstein
- Mabel King as Mother
- Richard Ward as Father
- Carl Gottlieb as Iron Balls McGinty
- Dick Anthony Williams as Taj
- Bill Macy as Stan Fox
- M. Emmet Walsh as Madman
- Dick O'Neill as Frosty
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An artless, non-stop barrage of off-the-wall situations, funny and unfunny jokes, generally effective and sometimes hilarious sight gags and bawdy non sequiturs.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
The comedy runs out of steam when the jerk makes good, but laugh for laugh it's probably a better investment than 10.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The laughs aren't steady, but they're persistent, and the film moves fast enough to compensate for its unevenness.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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