The Critic

1994-01-26 | TV-PG | en

Jon Lovitz Christine Cavanaugh Park Overall

Animation Drama Comedy

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Seasons & Episodes

EP1 Sherman, Woman and Child

Mar. 05,1995

Jay's ratings are not doing very well and Duke is about to fire him so Jay is feeling depressed. His feelings become better when he meets a new girlfriend named Alice and her daughter Penny. Alice gives Jay tips on how to improve his show and her advice works. Jay wants to get to know Alice better but discovers she has a boyfriend whom she wants to reject but can't.

EP2 Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice

Mar. 12,1995

After Jay attends the Academy Awards, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert break up and each rope Jay to be their new partner.

EP3 Lady Hawke

Mar. 19,1995

When Jeremy Hawke's sister, Olivia Newton Hawke, visits New York, Jay meets her and is smitten with her which puts his relationship with Alice on the line when she begins to feel left out. So Jay then must decide who he really loves.

EP4 A Song for Margo

Mar. 26,1995

Margo gets a new neighbor, Johnny Wrath, who is the lead singer in the rock group, "Nuns in a Blender". Margo falls in love with him but doesn't feel the relationship is right when she finds him with another girl. Meanwhile Alice tries to find a suitable preschool for Penny.

EP5 From Chunk to Hunk

Apr. 02,1995

Jay and Marty begin to feel a little big so they enroll in a weight loss camp. Marty loses a remarkable amount of weight which makes him feel more self- confident but when he is placed as the star in a school play, he doesn't feel his skinny self is right for him. Meanwhile, Jay receives a death threat from Belgian actor Jean Paul Le Pope whose movie he panned.

EP6 All the Duke's Men

Apr. 23,1995

When Jay helps Marty become class president, Duke decides to have Jay help him become US President.

EP7 Sherman of Arabia

Apr. 30,1995

At Marty's slumber party, Jay is asked to tell his story in which he got caught up in the Gulf War. Jay tells how he was attending an Iraqi film festival and eventually was thrown in jail where he escaped and lead a troop of men across the desert.

EP8 Frankie and Ellie Get Lost

May. 07,1995

Franklin and Eleanor celebrate their 40th anniversary by going on vacation but the plane crashes and Franklin and Eleanor find themselves marooned on an island. Back in New York, Margo and Jay find out about their disappearance and discover they have willed Jay their entire fortune which Jay decides to put to use by cleaning up New York.

EP9 Dukerella

May. 14,1995

Alice's sister, Miranda, comes to visit them which Alice is not comfortable with. Miranda must find work in New York so she joins "Mattress in an Hour" delivering mattresses. When everybody attends a party held by Duke, Miranda falls in love with Duke but is shy because of a wrinkle. She runs out on Duke at midnight and Duke must find the woman who fits her slipper. When it turns out to be Doris, Jay must get Duke and Miranda reunited.

EP10 I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show

May. 21,1995

Jay is hosting his 10th anniversary show held at Carnegie Hall where he showcases a number of movie clips from old episodes such as Jurassic Park 2, Every Which Way but Lucid, and Rabbi P.I. The show is later held hostage by a number of terrorists who threaten to blow the place up with a bomb tied to Jay's waist. Fortunately, everybody is eventually rescued by Milton Berle.

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Jay Sherman is a TV movie critic who is forced to review the most pathetic films which he always rates as "It stinks." In addition to the film parodies, the show also deals with his personal life: working for a tyrannical media mogul boss, his lovelife and his family.

The Critic Audience Reviews

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

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

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

Keira Brennan 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.

spooky24 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!

dee.reid "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

emdoub 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.

FrankBooth_DeLarge 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.