A quintet of Canadian TV comedians, hit the cinema screen with a splat.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Not to everyone's tastes then, but for fans of the show - big, big laughs.
Chicago Tribune by Gene Siskel
Bold and totally off-the-wall comedy.
The New York Times by Janet Maslin
The Kids in the Hall's first feature isn't anything more than a sloppy showcase for the group's costume-changing tricks, but sometimes its sheer chutzpah can be amusing. Just as often, flashes of complete plot incoherence or atrocious taste spoil the effect.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Cobbling together so many different characters (nearly all of them familiar to regular viewers) has left the Kids' feature debut as something of a letdown. We've seen it all before, and better, on HBO and Comedy Central.
I wish the film had made its points a little more artfully and implicitly, rather than simply sticking them in McDonald and McKinney’s mouths, but Brain Candy has an overarching satirical vision that makes it much more than just an assemblage of mostly funny running gags and stand-alone bits.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
I felt the Kids were too busy being hip and ironic to connect at the simpler level where comedy lives. They were brought down by their own self-protective devices.