Reception
Nina Darnton of the New York Times wrote, "In spite of the director's flair for zany humor, this film is just absurd." Pat Graham of the Chicago Reader found it "Not a bad film, and certainly more polished than Holland's Better Off Dead debut, though it's marred by unevenness and the director's ineradicable penchant for infantile clowning." The film maintains a 60% score at Rotten Tomatoes among RT's selected critics, as well as the at-large RT community, among 4100 voters.
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