disgusting, overrated, pointless

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This show had incredible amounts of potential. Although the timing and editing was a little awkward and jerky in the beginning they really began to hit their stride in the end of the first season/beginning of the second. The jokes are topical and very funny (although a bit dated at this point). It was by no means a perfect show, but if you look back at the first season of some TV favorites (The Simpsons, Seinfeld, etc..) the first few seasons do seem a bit rougher. Overall, I think this show was unfairly canceled and had potential to be a great show for at least a few more seasons. I have the entire series on DVD and still pop it in when I need a laugh!

"The Critic" is a great show. It follows the life & times of Jay Sherman (voice of Jon Lovitz), a New York-based film critic who is forced to review films he doesn't like. He's middle-aged, overweight, and raising his son Marty (Christine Cavanaugh) alone. The show pretty much deals with his attempts at finding love in the Big Apple and trying to deal with his crazy life, crazy parents, and crazy job."The Critic" is one of the great shows from my early years as a young boy growing up during the early 1990s. This was a show that along with "The Simpsons," provided a lot of animated hilarity on weekday and weekend afternoons that I just never got tired of watching. Six years ago, I managed to purchase the complete series of "The Critic" on DVD from Best Buy and I'm glad that I did, since I don't think that the DVD set is in print anymore.It was a truly one-of-a-kind show that was canceled way before its time. (Why are the really good shows always the ones getting canceled?) Lovitz, a greatly under-appreciated comedic talent, was great as Jay Sherman, who did a cross-over on "The Simpsons" once. "The Critic" was hilarious in the way that it parodied famous movies at the time. That was really one of the reasons why I loved it and why it worked so great as a comedy show that made fun of real life."The Critic" - 10/10

23 episodes on DVD, plus the webisodes. The first 12 or so episodes are worth the price of admission. All of it is watchable, but the series did indeed start slipping. The remarkable excellence of the first half should not be missed - and you'll want to watch the rest, just because they do show glimmers of the early magic through the rest of it.It really does help to be a film buff - they do bits from lots of different movies, and part of the fun is spotting the homage (and sniping) at a wide selection of movies. Some of them appear in the opening/closing credits, and change from episode to episode. The 'films' he reviews for his show are, thankfully, collected in the special features on the third DVD, and are well worth watching just by themselves.

The Critic was popular while it lasted, but it didn't last very long. Sometimes the show was very funny, sometimes it was very absurd, and other times it was very lame.Most of the characters were interesting, even though a couple of characters were very annoying. Jon Lovitz was great with his voice work that he provided for the show.This wasn't a bad show, but it wasn't nearly as good as animated shows like Beavis and Butthead, The Simpsons, South Park, or Family guy. If it was that good, then it would have lasted much longer.This is worth watching if you ever do get to see it, but don't expect to see a legendary animated show.