This movie has the humor and insouciant pileup of bizarre and disgustingly beautiful images of a cult classic on late-night cable.
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The DissolveSam Adams
The DissolveSam Adams
Hellbenders mostly feels like a doodle, an amiable lark that will amuse genrephiles and anyone else with their sights set appropriately low.
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Village VoiceChuck Wilson
Village VoiceChuck Wilson
Aided by capable if unnecessary 3D effects, Petty displays a flair for staging violent action, but he's trapped inside a broad comic set-up that doesn't mesh with the story's innate meanness.
Hellbenders becomes what it intends to burlesque, and that’s not so damn funny, even with 3D gimmickry.
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RogerEbert.comPeter Sobczynski
RogerEbert.comPeter Sobczynski
One of those films that expends so much time and effort in trying to become the next big cult sensation that it never gets around to simply being a good movie.