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Movie Review for Tuxedo, The
Movie Review for
Tuxedo, The
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Tuxedo, The | | |
| Also known as: | The Tux |
104 Reviews total.
Release date: 9/27/2002
Run length: 87 mins.
Categories:
Action/Adventure
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Comedy
Summary:
Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin: Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out of commission in an explosive"accident," Jimmy puts on the tux and soon discovers that this extraordinary suit may be more black belt than black tie. Suddenly thrust into a dangerous world of espionage, paired with a rookie partner as inexperienced as he is, Jimmy becomes an unwitting--if impeccably dressed--secret agent.
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (7/0)
The Tuxedo is good goofy fun. Do not attempt to apply logic or reason to it.
By
Brian Webster
of Apollo Guide (7/0)
Several good laughs, some enjoyably ridiculous action sequences, a good pace, and decent chemistr...
By
Marc Savlov
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
Dull, witless, and exhaustingly incomprehensible affair.
By
Jamie Russell
of BBC (7/0)
Surely Jackie Chan deserves better than this?
By
Michael Wilmington
of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
This is one more movie where you can tell that at least some of the moviemakers -- the scriptwrit...
By
Luanne Brown
of Chico Enterprise-Record (7/0)
...after you see just exactly where ‘clear mountain water’ comes from, you may take up orange jui...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Margaret A. McGurk
of Cincinnati Enquirer (7/0)
A keeper, for its humor, its action, its hint of romance -- and its too-brief cameo by the great ...
By
Joshua Tyler
of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
The lesson here is to realize when your cast is more talented than you and let them lead the way.
By
Karina Montgomery
of Cinerina (7/0)
There?s not enough Jackie action, seriously, and what exists feels almost like an afterthought; a...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
I found myself enjoying it more than I should have.
By
Steven D. Greydanus
of Decent Films Guide (7/0)
Yet another flawed but serviceable vehicle for Jackie Chan’s unique style of action comedy.
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/0)
To give you an idea of how inept the film is, there's probably more footage of Chan driving a tax...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Erik Childress
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
It’s absolutely amazing how first-time director Kevin Donovan managed to find something new to ad...
By
Lisa Schwarzbaum
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
Chan needs a foil, and Hewitt, while perky, doesn't project nearly enough comedy weight.
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
A confused film that aspires to be a superhero flick, screwball comedy and martial arts movie all...
By
Jason Anderson
of eye WEEKLY (7/0)
Sadly, Hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns, not making snappy comebacks...
By
Walter Chaw
of Film Freak Central (7/0)
It's difficult to say whether The Tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--I'm prepared to call it ...
By
Daniel Eagan
of Film Journal International (7/0)
The redeeming feature of Chan's films has always been the action, but the stunts in The Tuxedo se...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
John R. McEwen
of Film Quips Online (7/0)
...Only marginally funny at its best.
By
David Levine
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
Chan's great charisma drives the movie and made me overlook many of its weaker moments.
By
Victoria Alexander
of FilmsInReview.com (7/0)
Terrible.
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (8/0)
Hold[s] in complete contempt the idea that humor might rise above a level appreciated only by 10-...
By
Rob Vaux
of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
Not only does it squander most of [Jackie Chan's] assets, but it provides very little to distract...
By
Steven Snyder
of Greater Milwaukee Today (7/0)
I patiently waited for the credits and then ran for the exit.
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Eric Lurio
of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
While this is a fun film, and is certainly worth a matinee, [Chan's] beginning to get a bit tired...
By
Ross Anthony
of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
Tailored to entertain!
By
David Poland
of Hot Button (7/0)
[Tennant and Donovan] couldn't direct their way out of an empty stage with a big red light spinni...
By
Bruce Westbrook
of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
As an actor, [Chan] does stretch a bit.
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (7/0)
Chan and Hewitt make an hilarious team worth seeing again. TUXEDO 2? I'm ready!
By
Drew McAnulty
of Jam! Movies (8/0)
Unlike past movies where Chan amazed us with his amazing physical prowess, here he resorts to wir...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Jim Slotek
of Jam! Movies (8/0)
If it's not all that Jackie can be, it's an amusing 90 minutes of family-oriented action.
By
Louis B. Hobson
of Jam! Movies (8/0)
It's pretty obvious the producers were hoping to spin Chan and Hewitt's characters off into yet a...
By
JoBlo
of JoBlo's Movie Emporium (7/0)
The real downfall isn't Chan's standard fisticuffs or Hewitt's clothed performance, it's the lame...
By
Bob Bloom
of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
This Tuxedo ... should have been sent back to the tailor for some major alterations.
By
Dan Lybarger
of Kansas City Star (7/0)
MTV-trained director Kevin Donovan makes the mistake of "enhancing" Chan's moves with digital tri...
By
Robert Roten
of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
It has plenty of stunts and action, but the plot is very weak and the jokes are a bigger bust tha...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Jon Niccum
of Lawrence Journal-World (7/0)
At least The Tuxedo holds together as a movie -- it looks like The Matrix compared to, say, Rumbl...
By
Kenneth Turan
of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
Chan is still able to project the boyishness and insecurity of the new kid on the block. But even...
By
Matt Easterbrook
of Matt's Movie Reviews (8/0)
There’s nothing like an “underdog battles against all odds to conquer evil” story, especially whe...
By
Rene Rodriguez
of Miami Herald (7/0)
Who writes this stuff, anyway? Does this not sound like utter gibberish?
By
Nick Carter
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
Chan's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a sense o...
By
Kevin N. Laforest
of Montreal Film Journal (7/0)
There’s clearly something wrong when the bloopers reel is more fun than the actual movie.
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
The outtakes at the end of the film aren't funny either, but are instructive evidence of the exte...
By
Marty Mapes
of Movie Habit (7/0)
On the whole, The Tuxedo is a great piece of entertainment.
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
Four words I didn’t plan on saying: Bring back Chris Tucker!
By
Jeremy Heilman
of MovieMartyr.com (7/0)
It's downright refreshing to see a farce in which the lead actors don't feel its necessary to bui...
By
James Rocchi
of Netflix (7/0)
Idiotic plotting to annoy grown-ups; smutty comedy that'll confuse kids. Who, exactly, is this mo...
By
Jan Stuart
of Newsday (7/0)
It is a measure of the screenwriters' laziness that Brown's impromptu aside to Chan during the ob...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Jeffrey Westhoff
of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (7/0)
The elements don't come together, and the movie looks too small and cheap for its star.
By
Spyder Darling
of NY Rock (7/0)
What you expect is just what you get...assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above ...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
An action comedy whose action elements are flat and whose comic ones are lame...ordinary and rath...
By
Tyler Hanley
of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
Chan's ballet-like martial arts moves don't disappoint, and his nice-guy, fun-loving attitude is ...
By
Jon Popick
of Planet Sick-Boy (7/0)
Note to Hollywood: We're not going to Jackie Chan films because he's the Second Coming of Olivier...
By
Linda Cook
of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
Nothing about it fits.
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Andrew Manning
of Radio Free Entertainment (7/0)
The charisma of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jackie Chan elevates an otherwise run-of-the-mill film i...
By
Tor Thorsen
of Reel.com (7/0)
The film is Jackie Chan's Flubber, a middling would-be kiddie comedy with the all of originality ...
By
Laura Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
"The Tuxedo" should have been the vehicle for Chan that "The Mask" was for Jim Carrey. Alas, it'...
By
Robin Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
Newcomer helmer Kevin Donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amu...
By
Betty Jo Tucker
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
As an avid Jackie Chan fan, I always look forward to watching his unique martial arts comedy. Sad...
By
Jack Garner
of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/0)
Certainly, filmgoers are treated to martial arts action, but nothing as stressful or as thrilling...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Harry Guerin
of RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (7/0)
This is Jackie Pants not Jackie Chan.
By
Jim Lane
of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
Jeez, who wrote this junk? In fact, four people did, but I won't embarrass their mothers by namin...
By
Charles Taylor
of Salon.com (7/0)
Some hack makes a beer commercial and winds up trashing Jackie Chan.
By
Jim Judy
of Screen It! (7/0)
Squandering both its storytelling and star's potential, The Tuxedo is pretty much of a bad fit fr...
By
Sean Axmaker
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
This ill-fitting Tuxedo is strictly off-the-rack.
By
Moira MacDonald
of Seattle Times (7/0)
Chan's still a wonder, but The Tuxedo definitely doesn't fit.
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
The Tuxedo is custom-made to showcase Chan's many tricks of hand and foot, and as such it may app...
By
Todd Anthony
of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (7/0)
The waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity, incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexua...
By
Rob Blackwelder
of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
Downright transparent is the script's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that...
By
Nick Rogers
of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (7/0)
This film could have been for Chan what The Mask was for Jim Carrey. Unfortunately, it will be mo...
By
Gerry Shamray
of Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (7/0)
The Tuxedo proves to be missing a few buttons as a satisfying action flick. The likable Chan look...
By
Paul Salfen
of Supercala.com (7/0)
Critics and cynics will probably beat up on this flick, but if you go just wanting to be entertai...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Tony Toscano
of Talking Pictures (U.S.) (7/0)
...despite some tired gags, “The Tuxedo” also has some pretty nifty moments compliments of Chan’s...
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
Offers marginal enjoyment...but the movie [vanishes] from the viewer's mind once the end credits ...
By
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
Jackie Chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing.
By
Frank Ochieng
of TheWorldJournal.com (7/0)
Overall, The Tuxedo is not a custom-made fit. This is one action comedy that is extremely exhaust...
By
Maitland McDonagh
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
Feather-light and proudly goofy, this Jackie Chan action comedy appears to be aimed squarely at u...
By
Urban Cinefile Critics
of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
If it weren’t for the likeability of Jackie Chan and his inventive, acrobatic, larger than life a...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Susan Granger
of www.susangranger.com (7/0)
Kevin Donovan does the best he can with the silly, lame script by Michael J. Wilson and Michael L...
By
Michael Szymanski
of Zap2it.com (7/0)
Hewitt and Chan lack anything sensual at all. It's like a Powerpuff girl talking to a Pikachu.
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (3/4) No reference
One man kills another - again, we won't specify who - by throwing a bug inside the other's mouth....
By
Wade Major
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
Though The Tuxedo is unquestionably slick -- veteran commercial director Kevin Donovan has no sho...
By
Ross Brooks
of Citysearch (3/4) No reference
The techno tux is good for a few laughs, as are Chan and Hewitt, but when such a good design turn...
By
Matt Brunson
of Creative Loafing (3/4) No reference
The Tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Sean O'Connell
of Eclipse Magazine (3/4) No reference
Like bread with no yeast, Tuxedo never rises to the occasion.
By
Brent Simon
of Entertainment Today (3/4) No reference
Deftly plotted genre shenanigans... an attractive piece of evening wear.
By
Staci Layne Wilson
of Fantastica Daily (3/4) No reference
The plot is pretty threadbare, but Chan's inventive fight choreography leaves you hanging by a th...
By
Marshall Fine
of Journal News (Westchester, NY) (3/4) No reference
Jackie Chan is probably too old and too westernized at this point to make a pure Jackie Chan film...
By
Danny Minton
of KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (3/4) No reference
In the two words of the soul master James Brown himself, before you sit down to watch this movie,...
By
Ernest Hardy
of L.A. Weekly (3/4) No reference
Chan's worst Hollywood film to date.
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Josh Bell
of Las Vegas Weekly (3/4) No reference
Both Chan and Hewitt need to have some serious talks with their agents.
By
Bob Strauss
of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
Any cleverness that might be drawn from the concept that clothes-make-the-superman seems to have ...
By
Nick Schager
of Matinee Magazine (3/4) No reference
With a story that would be right at home in a lame-brained Rob Schneider comedy, the film seems t...
By
Michael Elliott
of Movie Parables (3/4) No reference
The biggest surprise in The Tuxedo is how the filmmakers managed to blow such a brilliant concept...
By
Clint Morris
of Moviehole (3/4) No reference
Much like the Jim Carrey movie The Mask, it's all bells and whistles and no plot here.
By
Kim Morgan
of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
Carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders, Chan wades through putrid writing, direct...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (3/4) No reference
A generally joyless affair thanks to a script by committee and a director with no grasp of Chan's...
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (3/4) No reference
The moves feel flat, the editing is choppy and the fight sequences lack the inventiveness of Chan...
By
Jerry McCormick
of San Diego Union-Tribune (3/4) No reference
The writers may have figured The Tuxedo was tailor-made for a Chan/Hewitt pairing, but both may w...
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) No reference
Chops up the action so we never get a clear view of Chan doing that voodoo he do do so well (or d...
By
Josh Larsen
of Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (3/4) No reference
...putting Jackie Chan in a car chase is like putting Pamela Anderson in a burka. It's a waste of...
By
Jonathan R. Perry
of Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (3/4) No reference
We shouldn’t expect a triumphal moment in modern American cinema when we see Jackie Chan and Jenn...
Reviews of Tuxedo, The
By
Josef Braun
of Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) (3/4) No reference
Taken as a whole, The Tuxedo doesn’t add up to a whole lot.
By
Desson Thomson
of Washington Post (3/4) No reference
This movie is about the worst thing Chan has done in the United States.
Movie Distributors Production Companies
Adam Schroeder Entertainment
Tuxedo Productions
Vanguard Films
Blue Train Entertainment Movie Studios
DreamWorks SKG
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