Arthur is a thirty-year-old child who will inherit 750 million dollars if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
Only someone with a heart of stone could fail to love a drunk like Arthur Bach.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
Overrated one-joke comedy.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
So little care has gone into the characterizations, the structure, and the situations that the film merely feints at significant comedy.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Apr 2008
fresh:
Moviegoers are hereby alerted to some good fun.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
22 Aug 2008
fresh:
Arthur is a sparkling entertainment which attempts, with a large measure of success, to resurrect the amusingly artificial conventions of 1930s screwball romantic comedies.