1. [A] loopy lark...the sheer goofiness of the premise, together with its gossipy 'insider' nature [and] the take-no-prisoners performance of John Malkovich...carry it along.
2. Malkovich's playing to the rafters is certainly amusing, but the film can't shake off its Borscht Belt by way of Britain lineage and its failure to dig beneath the surface.
3. The film, with its relentlessly tight focus on its main character, winds down to nothingness.
4. The movie is endless even at less than 90 minutes.
5. It's a truffle of a movie that may leave you feeling like you ate one too many purple chocolates, but secondary performances by Honor Blackman (remember the original "Avengers") and the ever-kooky Ken Russell add texture to the comic motif.
6. The script evinces no interest in the psychology of its main character.
7. [Kubrick] might dismiss as trite the message that proximity to celebrity is so intoxicating, it stupefies. But one hopes he'd relish the cheerful audacity of the caper and its telling.
8. Malkovich relishes the character quirks in a performance that pulls out all the stops and pushes every button.
9. Malkovich pulls out all the gaudy stops.
10. Malkovich's performance, and the irresistible concept of an anonymous man dining out on a false identity, carries the film along giddily, and Cook wisely keeps Color Me Kubrick short and deliciously tart.
What is the consensus?
Colour Me Kubrick has a fascinating premise, but provides little insight into Kubrick and the man who impersonated him.