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Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin.

-John SkowFull Review

An artless, non-stop barrage of off-the-wall situations, funny and unfunny jokes, generally effective and sometimes hilarious sight gags and bawdy non sequiturs.

-Variety StaffFull Review

We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props.

-Roger EbertFull Review

The laughs aren't steady, but they're persistent, and the film moves fast enough to compensate for its unevenness.

-Janet MaslinFull Review

An oddball odyssey so strange, filled with non-sequiturs so funny, and decorated by a romance so sweet, it was an inevitable star-maker.

-Simon MiraudoFull Review

92 minutes of direct and sweet surrealism

-Fernando F. CroceFull Review

If only he could have satisfied himself with this area of expertise, people would still talk of Steve Martin as one of the kings of comic cinema.

-Richard LuckFull Review

The comedy runs out of steam when the jerk makes good, but laugh for laugh it's probably a better investment than 10.

-Geoff AndrewFull Review

The whole thing is uneven and slight, but the highlight moments guilty-pleasure us with the sort of stupid-funny that's 'LOL' quotable afterward.

-Mark BourneFull Review

Steve Martin is at the height of his comic powers in this very un-PC comedy.

-Cole Smithey

While The Jerk is an extremely episodic little movie, that's a malady easily forgiven -- simply because the episodes are so damn funny.

-Scott WeinbergFull Review

Martin's one-liners are pretty funny, very dry, and awfully quotable.

-Christopher NullFull Review

Pretty funny star vehicle.

-Ken Hanke

The next time Marting considers a script like BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, he should watch this and remember when he was funny.

-Brian Mckay

Classic Steve Martin

-Kevin Fiddler

Despite its shortcomings, THE JERK is a good example of how the big screen welcomes some comedians much more easily than others

-Shane Burridge

An early watered down version of the crude comedy the Farrelly Brothers would later take to new extremes.

-Almar HaflidasonFull Review


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