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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonCrystal’s deadpan expressions and one liners interlock perfectly with Williams’s multiple personalities and verbal asides. They’re like basketball all-stars flipping no-look passes, trading slam-dunks and practically chest-bumping each other. Director Ivan Reitman doesn’t have to do more than keep time.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonIt's just another Williams and Crystal movie. But let's see a few more.
- 70The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinNot surprisingly, there are some slow patches and formulaic touches, but that's a fair trade for the fun of watching Mr. Williams and Mr. Crystal make an irresistible comic team.
- 40TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghHow much you enjoy the film will depend entirely on how much you enjoy the spectacle of Williams spewing forth streams of nonsensical gibberish in an attempt to impersonate a German record producer, and Crystal pitching snit fits.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIf Fathers’ Day really had been released in the mid-’80s, I’d have said it was so funny I forgot to laugh.
- 30VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyRobin Williams and Billy Crystal can each provoke a lot more laughs in a minute of standup than they jointly manage during the entire running time of Fathers' Day.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA brainless feature-length sitcom with too much sit and no com.
- 25ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliTravesty.
- 20Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterA lamebrained American remake of the classic, bitter French farce "Les Comperes," Fathers' Day offers sporadic laughs of the lowest kind -- the old outhouse-bites-man thing -- but some conspicuous idiocy as well.
- 0The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsAdd to these problems the fact that Fathers' Day is a comedy starring two reputedly hilarious people who don't make you laugh once, and you have a movie that would be great if everything about it weren't terrible.