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Cast
- Ben StillerTim Dingman
- Jack BlackNick Vanderpark
- Rachel WeiszDebbie Dingman
- Christopher WalkenJ-Man
- Amy PoehlerNatalie Vanderpark
- Ariel GadeLula Dingman
- Sam LernerMichael Dingman
- Lily JacksonNellie Vanderpark
- Connor MatheusNathan Vanderpark
- Hector EliasEduardo
Recommendations
- 75
Christian Science Monitor
The movie works fairly well as a pitch-dark comedy, and very well as a dead-on satire of upward mobility and its discontents. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The laughs tend to come in fits and starts, built around individual set pieces rather than being generated organically out of the storytelling. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Even the relatively successful pairing of neckless maestro of anxiety Stiller with the indomitably effervescent Black gets bogged down by Steve Adams' aimless screenplay. Would the Barry Levinson who once made "Diner" please wake up and pull himself together? - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Levinson, who has directed enough films to know better, should recognize a stinker of a script when he smells one: Instead clever laughs he serves up sloppy schtick, dead spots filled with lame ad-libbing and Walken crooning "The Happy Wanderer." - 38
Chicago Tribune
Envy is a shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear. - 38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Envy makes a pretty entertaining three-minute trailer. If only they'd left it at that. - 30
Washington Post
With all the dog dung in Envy, it's almost too easy to generalize that it stinks. But it does, unfortunately, despite the big-name actors in its cast. - 25
Entertainment Weekly
Leaves you with the dismaying sensation that Levinson, who should probably be off making his own version of ''The Player,'' has instead crafted a comedy of self-loathing, burying himself in a movie that deserves to be Vapoorized.
