Reception
| "Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks." |
| —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
Meta review website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 9% based on 97 reviews.
Roger Ebert gave this film a very rare "zero star" rating, calling it "aggressively bad, as if it wants to cause suffering to the audience" and on his show Ebert and Roeper "completely beneath contempt." He ranked it as the worst film of 2005, and ultimately included this movie in his most hated films list. On the television show Ebert & Roeper, Richard Roeper called the film "the cinematic equivalent of a bunch of 13 year old boys in a locker room repeating dirty phrases they've just learned" and "dead on arrival."
Ebert also chastized Rob Schneider for his overly-zealous defense of the series, referring to an incident in which Los Angeles Times critic Patrick Goldstein called Schneider a "third-rate comic." Schneider responded by calling Goldstein a "third-rate, unfunny pompous reporter" in a full-page open letter published in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Schneider further claimed that Goldstein was unqualified to review the film since he was not a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Ebert, himself having won the Pulitzer Prize, took it upon himself to criticize Schneider in his own review. He ended the review with the quote "Your movie sucks" which would later become the title of a book published by Ebert compiling reviews of films he had awarded below 2/4 stars.
Ebert and Schneider would ultimately settle their differences, and Schneider sent his well wishes to Ebert during his recovery from thyroid cancer. Ebert responded "Rob Schneider might (in my opinion) have made a bad movie. He is not a bad man."
The movie was nominated for five Razzie Awards including Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Screen Couple (Rob Schneider and his diapers) with Schneider winning Worst Actor.
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