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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThis is a movie in which the audience knows half the gags in advance, but thanks to director Dennis Dugan's timing and Farley's execution, the audience doesn't just laugh anyway, but laughs harder. Knowing in advance is part of the fun.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThe slapstick and the sight gags come thick and fast, as they have throughout a hundred years of screen comedy, yet director Dennis Dugan and writers Mark Feldberg and Mitch Klebanoff keep everything light and bouncy.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittAs coarse, vulgar, adolescent action comedies go, Beverly Hills Ninja comes across as relatively tame - less profanity, less violence, less sex than typical for this "Naked Gun" wannabe.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenIf you're nostalgic for the third grade and all those little wads of wet paper bouncing off the back of your neck, Beverly Hills Ninja is the movie for you. It is one extended fat joke, tricked out in ceremonial robes.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliBeverly Hills Ninja is essentially a one-joke film.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyBruce FrettsEntertainment WeeklyBruce FrettsBut when the writers run out of ideas, they simply have Farley walk into a lamppost, or cop from old SNL skits.
- 20TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxFarley -- one of the few comedians who could ever be justly accused of debasing the pratfall -- has made a film that's tantamount to watching an overweight man slip on a banana peel for nearly 90 minutes.
- 10Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorIt makes me sick all over again just describing this--the most affecting scene in a sluggish would-be comedy that reflects the dubious state of the art of fat male comedians exploiting themselves in 1997, the year its star died.
- 0Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovNearly as much fun as a case of scabies, Beverly Hills Ninja transports the viewer into a mystical realm where pratfall is king and mediocrity is its own reward.