This movie isn't merely disrespectful; it's contemptuous.
– Susan Stark,
Detroit News,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A light comedy, pure and simple (and hardly unfamiliar), but its makers sustain its energy through the unraveling of an intricate plot and bring to it a certain edge through a witty, sharp sense of observation.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001
rotten:
Hit-and-mostly-miss retro comedy.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2001
rotten:
There's no sign of the writerly derring-do that is really essential to daisy-chain storytelling.