Metacritic reviews

Instantly forgettable but fun while it lasts, Disney's live-action adaptation of the classic cartoon is an ideal action-adventure thrill ride for kids who may be a little too young for the latest Bond extravaganza.

By turns frenetic and flat-footed, Mr. Magoo is an uninspired live-action comedy.

Crashingly unimaginative. But its real offense is making such poor use of Nielsen.

Only a couple of good gags in its pileup of otherwise lame jokes keep the production from being an unqualified stinker.

Nielsen's performance is truly dreadful, yet somehow it seems strangely fitting for the movie, which is unlikely even to engage the younger audience for whom it is so obviously intended. When even the outtakes you see over the end titles don't raise a single titter, you know you're in trouble.

Poor old Mr. Magoo should have been allowed to rest in piece. This film suggests that when you loot a crypt, you're likely to find a corpse.

Mr. Magoo is transcendently bad. It soars above ordinary badness as the eagle outreaches the fly. There is not a laugh in it. Not one. I counted.

If you really hate your kids, pack them off to this slapdash farce, whose only funny moment is the PC disclaimer at the end about the Disney company's humanist concern for blind people (which even literate toddlers will have trouble understanding anyway).

It's a mess best left to the nitrate ashes of forgotten film and television history.

With Mr. Magoo, it’s the filmmakers who seem blind.