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(1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 30% Rotten Page   1   B+ "Hot Rod isn't so much a comedy as it is an exclusive clubhouse for those who define their existence by the articulation of their zany. It's a wild one, but not without its charms."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf 3/4 "...comes off as precisely the sort of silly and nonsensical piece of work that one might've expected..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "An oddball comedy that only seems to be funny for the people who made it. The audience, unfortunately, is left out on the joke."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B "You're either going to wet your pants laughing, or you're going to scratch your head and wonder if you're getting too old."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "It isn't just throwing joke darts at a board in the hopes that a few stick. It's throwing them at the pool table, the bartender, your face, then dynamiting the wall to go after the building next door."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D- "Aims to be goofily anarchic...but it's sloppily written, lazily staged and annoyingly dumb...like a home movie slapped together by a bunch of half-addled bar pals."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 6/10 "A good time flick, one that didn’t really blow me away, but featured a sweet loser chasing a cutie-pie chick with a number of laughs and a quick pace."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 4/10 "What the movie needed was a script transplant."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2/10 "Andy Samberg is tolerable in a 90-second Digital Short on Saturday Night Live, but very, very far from tolerable in a 90-minute feature film."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 1/4 "Makes the biggest error a random, moronic, absurd comedy can make by trying too hard to be random, moronic, and absurd."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "There really is a fine line between clever and stupid, and the Hot Rod guys are on the wrong side of it."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "Samberg proves to be less than big screen-ready (hardly surprising, given his most notable SNL work has come in music video shorts and not any sketch work)."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 1.5/5 "It's sad when the most interesting part of a film is a dream sequence involving a large taco fighting an equally massive grilled cheese sandwich."   Film Threat   Michael Ferraro 1.5/5 "Even the funny bits are ruined by overemphasis."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 2.5/4 "About half of the jokes in it made me laugh or at least giggle, while the other half of the jokes fell flat on their face. The movie is funny, but not consistently so."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "Dementedly random moments make up for some of the more sluggish, thuggish elements."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "Hot Rod is further proof that the primary aspiration of the male SNL cast member is to make 90-minute sketch films about dense man-children who can't or refuse to grow up."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager "The makers of Hot Rod manage to convince themselves that they've invented some new form of dead-pan, ironic, insider comedy - that's in reality as old as the hills."   DVDTalk.com   Paul Mavis 1/5 ""Hot Rod" suggests what "Napoleon Dynamite" might have looked like under the direction of Hal Needham"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski "It's a simple comedy that tries to be nothing but. At times it is simple hilarity, other times it's a little too "Napoleon Dynamite" for its own good."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 2.5/5 "While certainly not on the same sub-level as the other SNL flicks, Hot Rod is more like 25% inspired weirdness and 75% recycled stuff."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg B "... a cousin to the comedies of Will Ferrell with a younger skew, a kooky '80s nostalgia... and a low-key amiability..."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2/10 "A silly, sputtering, goofball comedy gone gooey."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger  (1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 30% Rotten Page   1