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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonLos Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonThey’ve made a sometimes funny, mostly media-referential movie without much real life; a high-tech, high-pro job that has a glamor-robot feel.
- 40EmpireEmpireIt's watchable enough in a nothing-better-to-do sort of way, but comparison with a contemporary movie, say, Uncle Buck, shows just how thin it really is.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineSHE'S OUT OF CONTROL would have done far better in the TV ratings than it did at the box office. It has all the production pluses of national ad campaigns: smart art direction, lighting, and costume design; a catchy mix of old and new rock'n'roll on the soundtrack. Unfortunately, SHE'S OUT OF CONTROL also resembles commercials in that it hopes to appeal to everyone and basically endears itself to no one.
- 30The New York TimesCaryn JamesThe New York TimesCaryn JamesAnyone who has watched television for even a night will be able to predict every scene in She's Out of Control with total accuracy. It is an extended version of familiar, bland sitcom situations, with Mr. Danza playing a smoother-edged version of his character on the endlessly running hit ''Who's the Boss?''
- 30Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyAn inspid comedy about Daddy and Daddy's little girl. It's an irksome, one-dimensional sitcom with smut.
- 25Chicago TribuneDave KehrChicago TribuneDave KehrThe coarse material, from a screenplay by Seth Winston and Michael J. Nathanson, is roughed up even more by Dragoti's abrasive exaggeration, both of performance (there's a terrifying sequence in which Hicks finally gets her long dreamed-of engagement ring and goes into a frenzy of triumph and delight) and of visual style (visits to the office of sinister shrink Wallace Shawn are filmed in weird expressionist off-angles). [14 Apr 1989, p.D]
- 25Miami HeraldJuan Carlos CotoMiami HeraldJuan Carlos CotoShe's Out of Control is too insipid to take. [15 Apr 1989, p.E5]
- 20Time OutTime OutDragoti's dire, dishonest, seldom humorous social comedy has all the nauseating hallmarks of a big-budget sitcom. Can't wait for the John Waters remake.
- 0Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertShe's Out of Control is simultaneously so bizarre and so banal that it's a first: the first movie fabricated entirely from sitcom cliches and plastic lifestyles, without reference to any known plane of reality.