A lot of times, you simply want the jabbering characters to shut up.
– Randy Cordova,
Arizona Republic,
28 Mar 2013
rotten:
"Mental" wildly overplays the kookiness and quirk.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
28 Mar 2013
rotten:
Writer-director P.J. Hogan may have based "Mental" on an actual incident from his childhood, but the crazy quilt of a movie that resulted feels anything but real.
– Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar 2013
rotten:
The scenery Down Under looks great and you certainly can't write off a film where Liev Schreiber plays a shark hunter.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
29 Mar 2013
fresh:
The heart of Hogan's film is in the right place, and Collette is masterful as an agent of anarchy.