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Problem Child
1990
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2.0
The rest of the kids tricks are too unimaginative to be much fun though with jokes this lame you wont have to worry as much about your children gettin ..
EW
1.0
Ritters usual nice guy appeal cant save anyone, and Richards, Jack Warden, and Amy Yasbeck (who plays Juniors adoptive mother) are more obnoxious than ..
Common Sense Media
1.5
In Dennis Dugans intermittently hilarious Problem Child, he makes Dennis the Menace look like Mister Rogers hes Dennis the Terminator.
1.0
There is something offensive about using an unloved and rebellious child as the butt of bad jokes in this way.
Radio Times
1.5
There are amusing moments here and there and John Ritter offers an ingratiating performance, but thats about it.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.0
Pipsqueak comedy that does not have the courage of its own convictions.
Empire
0.5
As directed by the actor Dennis Dugan, everyone seems to be yelling their lines and making huge hand gestures instead of acting.
The New York Times
0.5
The film marks an atrocious bigscreen debut for actor and episodic TV director Dennis Dugan.
Variety
0.5
The film marks an atrocious bigscreen debut for actor and episodic TV director Dennis Dugan.
Variety
0.0
To call PROBLEM CHILD a comedy remake of THE BAD SEED does a terrible disservice to Mervyn LeRoys chilling little film.
Movies Tv Guide
3.0
No kid should ever be offended by a feature film.The worst movie of all time
Brian Or Ndorf
0.5
Theyve jacked this loud, lame shrieker of a movie up to the highest decibels, both aural and visual, and rammed it in our faces with almost numbing ap ..
La Times
2.5
Inside Dennis Dugans uncertainly staged, awkwardly sentimental Problem Child is another movie fighting to get out one thats much meaner and probably m ..
Articles Chicago Tribune
1.3
Its misguided. Its not funny. And in its lame efforts to be irreverent and hip, it turns out to be just plain mean.
Tulsa World
2.5
Some kids are born bad. Others achieve badness. And some have badness thrust upon them. The same can be said of movies.
Articles Philly
1.5
John Ritter hasnt been this amusing and likeable onscreen in years.
Articles Sun Sentinel
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