40
Sadly, proof that they will make absolutely anything these days.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
30
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
[A] depressingly inept comedy.
75
Absolutely Anything is more than its unique place in history, and serves to remind us that no one made movies for goofy adults quite like Jones did.
20
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
A huge amount of talent here, including Joanna Lumley and Eddie Izzard. Sadly it goes nowhere.
20
It’s devastating to think how far Jones has fallen in the four decades since “Holy Grail,” in which he got more laughs banging a few coconuts together than he musters from his entire movie.
40
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
It’s not bad so much as lightly feeble – and Pegg acquits himself respectably in a lead role that, for a change, chimes well to his best comic persona: the beta male under alpha pressure.
30
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
Absolutely Anything is a flabby misfire full of labored slapstick, broad caricatures and groaningly absurd plot twists.
40
Time Out London by Tom Huddleston
In the plus column there’s a small handful of decent gags, a clutch of welcome cameos (Eddie Izzard, notably) and at 85 minutes it doesn’t outstay its welcome. There’s also a fairly solid moral about free will and personal desire. But nothing else here really clicks.