The sort of feeble redemption story Hollywood often palms off on the film-going public.
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11/11/02
Joe Somebody (2001)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:16
Rotten:67
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Amiable, but extremely lightweight and predictable.
Reviews for Joe Somebody
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12/30/06
Top CriticThe film is too busy concentrating on its various dumb plots and subplots when it should have tossed it all aside and had some fun.
12/26/01
Has the look and feel of an extended sitcom episode.
03/19/02
Extremely light, but pleasant. Rarely a big laugh, but a friendly supply of chuckles
12/20/01
Marginally enjoyable but wincingly shallow and eminently forgettable.
12/21/01
One of the best family films around.
12/21/01
Save yourself a few dollars. Stay home and watch reruns of Home Improvement.
12/21/01
What's the holiday season without a turkey?
12/21/01
Aiming to punch holes in some male myths, John Scott Shepherd's script barely makes contact.
12/21/01
How can screenwriter John Scott Shepherd look at himself in the mirror after turning out such uninspired, immature, mechanical, cliche-driven, insultingly predictable drivel?
12/18/01
The movie is a collection of annoying and dead-ended subplots.
12/21/01
There are things to relish here.
12/21/01
It doesn't much succeed, but Allen and the bit of acid candor the script does muster do cushion its shortcomings.
12/21/01
Joe Somebody isn't as bad as Glitter, but it's harder to watch--and that's pretty much as bad as mainstream movies get.
12/20/01
The movie's choppy, erratic tone is as irritating as its unlikable characters.
12/21/01
A made-for-TV movie dressed up like a feature film. Its plot is not only stale, it's been stale for decades.
12/21/01
Top CriticBland, predictable, unfunny.
01/03/02
By the end of Joe Somebody, we are faced with the dismal prospect of being denied a climax, which, if it occurred, would be just as predictable as its substitute.
12/21/01
Top CriticIf American Beauty were a bland comedy, it would be Joe Somebody.
12/20/01
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