A mirthless comedy about venal people doing stupid things.
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05/01/05
King's Ransom (2005)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:1
Rotten:48
Average Rating:2.3/10
Consensus: Filled with crass dialogue, unlikable characters, and overdone slapstick gags, King's Ransom is an utterly inept would-be comedy.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Anthony Anderson sheds his usual sidekick status, heading up the ensemble cast as Malcolm King, a boorish, egomaniacal billionaire who owns a huge, equally tasteless marketing firm in Chicago. The... [More]
Starring: Anthony Anderson, Jay Mohr, Regina Hall, Loretta Devine
Director: Jeff Byrd
Reviews for King's Ransom
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04/23/05
You'll feel like the one who's being held hostage.
04/23/05
I couldn't pay anyone to see this movie. Literally.
05/21/05
Watching Anderson try to be funny is like getting a tooth pulled, or sitting through a Tim Burton DVD audio commentary.
04/22/05
The film's tag line - 'Big Man. Big Plan. Big Mistake.' sums up the decision to make the movie... big mistake.
04/23/05
Marital bickering, a mistaken-identity sex romp and booty shots galore follow, but few laughs.
04/28/05
This slapdash comedy barely coughs up more than a couple of funny scenes as the story moves in predictable fits and starts before sputtering out of fuel half way through.
06/19/09
All these plots converge in a decidedly unfunny cacophony.
04/29/05
It is, quite plainly, like watching a movie that’s trying to go out of its way to be horrible.
07/23/05
Unobtrusive and virtually painless as an occasionally witty laugher, but lacks the courage of its convictions to follow through with its less commercial ambitions.
04/23/05
After a while, all these odious, yammering people start to sound a lot like Charlie Brown's teacher. And they somehow all end up together at a time and a place you do not want to be.
04/26/05
Mean-spirited, unpleasant comedy about characters who are both nasty and stupid and who deserve every bad thing that happens to them. In fact, they deserve more.
04/30/05
Byrd haphazardly assembles a bunch of overly exaggerated caricatures and parades them around in a dissolving farce that has all the wayward charm of a botched lobotomy
04/23/05
Devoid of anything resembling wit or even guiltily amusing tasteless gags, the film lurches from one haplessly staged sequence to another, with the performers vainly struggling to infuse humor into the proceedings.
04/26/05
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10/30/06
With the humor in this lazy farce about as subtle as a shotgun blast to the face, it's possible to see the whole movie as an accident, the cumulative result of haphazard negligence.
04/26/05
The script, by TV writer Wayne Conley, shares some elements with the old Danny DeVito comedy Ruthless People, but humor isn't one of them.
01/05/07
If Anderson can land the role of a corporate shark who's surrounded by hot babes, it's conceivable we could soon see Jennifer Lopez as the lead in 'Memoirs of a Geisha'...
04/25/05
One of those barbarically unfunny romps that would be over in less than 10 minutes if just one character had an IQ higher than a cherry Pop-Tart.
04/26/05
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