Rotten
Watching a Tom Arnold movie is like getting trapped in a room with a barking dog for 90 minutes.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Carpool
A dad in a hurry. A man on the run. And five kids with an attitude.
1996 · 1h 29m · PG
Comedy, Family
Directed by
Arthur Hiller
Overview
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
13%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Carpool, the new Tom Arnold comedy, is one ride to avoid, unless truly idiotic car-chase slapstick comedies are the destination genre.
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
A ramshackle if amiable chase comedy.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
A clunker of a chase movie that gets more mileage out of its cut-the-cheese jokes than it does from the this comic duo.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
What is this, an idea?
Jack Mathews, Los Angeles Times
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