Critic Reviews

• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

  It's no masterpiece, but I found it consistently good-hearted and sometimes hilarious, and the sparse crowd I saw it with was laughing as much as I was, especially at the outrageous rap numbers.

• David Edelstein, Slate

  If the context of Marci X were more realistic, a lot of these gags would soar. But the context is drag-show dinner theater.

• Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  A talent-stuffed assemblage of barbs and giddy musical numbers that shouldn't be written off as a feature flop -- but savored instead for the cult-ready collection of late-night satirical skits and misses it is.

• Jon Caramanica, Village Voice

  Sports woefully outmoded cultural punchlines.

• Joe Leydon, Variety

  The term 'wildly uneven' doesn't come close to charting the peaks and valleys of Marci X.

• Peter Howell, Toronto Star

  The spoofs in Marci X are so old and dated, it boggles the imagination to think of what group might still be offended them.

• Nell Minow, Common Sense Media

  Seemingly endless movie.

• Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

  Marci X is the kind of terrible movie I'm almost glad I've seen, because this decade probably won't bring a worse movie than this.

• Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

  It's the kind of movie that Mel Brooks used to make, warts and all.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  A sketch comedy that misses more than it hits.

• Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

  Como algum estúdio pôde aprovar este roteiro? Como os atores aceitaram participar do projeto? Como este conseguiu ser lançado? Como Benjamin pode ser chamado de 'cineasta'?

• Stephen Himes, Film Snobs

  Suggests a sort of Judeo-Nubian alliance that would supposedly make uptight WASP's quake with fear. I think.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  A more blithe display of astonishingly clueless anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, and sheer bad taste has not been seen since probably ever.

• Linda Cook, Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

  Draw a big red "X" through this one.

• Tim Cogshell, Boxoffice Magazine

  The fatal flaw of Marci X is its complete and total disconnect from the contemporary zeitgeist of hip-hop culture in American society.

• Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle

  A bad joke that turns out to be a bad movie as well.

• Harry Haun, Film Journal International

  J.A.P. meets rap, but it's not a marriage made in heaven -- (very) far from it, in fact.

• , E! Online

  If you're looking for laughs, X doesn't mark the spot.

• Steve Schneider, Orlando Weekly

  A brief bit about a celibate boy band scores big; the rest is just noise.

• Nick Rogers, State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)

  Given the songs were written by South Park songwriter Marc Shaiman, the lyrics should be more caustic. Like that show, the film is equally irreverent but nowhere near as intelligent or subversive.

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