Dickie Roberts: Ex-enfant star

This movie is hilarious from beginning to end. Imagine, a Hollywood movie that shows how RIDICULOUS Hollywood is! Spade is terrific, the 'child star' has beens are wonderful and likable in spoofing their own careers. You've got to respect that.

Mary McCormack is both beautiful and very funny in the 'straight role' of the movie. I'd love to see her do more comedy. Did I mention that she is very easy on the eyes? The dude who plays her husband and Dickie's 'father' is hilarious too. His name escapes me. Not many lines, but stole scenes. A confident Spade seemed to let him do that, the sign of a good comedic actor is that HE doesn't have to get all the good lines.

The kids are endearing. The 'stunts' (ie bike crashes) are phenomenal.

Like Tommy Boy and Joe Dirt, he plays that goofy guy who's missing it on most cylinders, but you can't help rooting for.

That's a guy I want in any comedy I see. The underachieving underdog who figures it out in the end and makes good. Spade is terrific at playing that role - and in Dickie Roberts - he's at his best.

I watched this movie last night and it was awful. Basically the only funny parts in it were the ones in the commercials. If you are a huge David Spade fan you will probably like this movie. If you are not a David Spade fan you should not waste your time on this movie

A silly comedy starring David Spade as a former child star who "hires" a family in order to give himself a real childhood experience so he can nab a new part in a Rob Reiner movie. The premise is as silly as you can get but it does have some fun injokes involving quite a number of former child actors from the 70s and 80s which is great fun for tv nostalgia buffs.. Pleasant enough comedy. GRADE: C

"Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" follows a thirty-something-year-old Dickie Roberts (a former child star) as he tries to get back into the acting business. This leads to an audition for a movie that Dickie thinks will bring him back to the people, and have people love him again. However, the director (Rob Reiner) believes that Dickie would have to live his entire childhood to get the part right, which leads Dickie to hire a family.

"Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" is not one of those movies that someone has high hopes for, and it isn't. Sure, David Spade brings out the sarcastic side of Dickie, but I don't think he had the ability to act out the more emotional parts, like when his character talks about being a mess of a human being. His voice is also way too dull, flat, boring and much too sarcastic to actually give an emotional performance.

Then, there are the jokes. Some are funny, others aren't, and this is when I start to doubt the sense of humour in the actors. Jokes are key to comedies, and "Dickie Roberts" didn't really hit it home with theirs.

I expected so much more laughs from this movie, but for what it gave me - 4/10.

It was a hot day and I decided to hit a movie. "Dickie Roberts" just happened to start at the right time for me. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. Great script, perfectly cast (especially the kids) and it was really kinda heartwarming.

If you're a pop culture nut, you'll get a big kick outta seeing all the former child stars in the poker scene and then again at the end (stay for the credits).

Spade completely pulls it off. Lovitz is his usual outstanding (but then again I'm a big Lovitz fan).

Go see it. C'mon, go ahead.