1. But it's all far too flabby, with lengthy setups that seem to go on forever. Some judicious editing to tighten up the film could have made all the difference in the overall pacing.
2. A movie that makes you leave the theatre with thoughts of having yourself, and your neighbors, spayed is not a good thing.
3. John Hughes' vision of Dennis is much more menacing than Ketcham's fans and parents of small children might reasonably expect.
4. A smooth blend of sentiment and slapstick.
5. Its unholy mixture of peppy sadism and pious, self-righteous sentiment comes straight from Hughes' crabbed cinematic heart.
6. Very young children may find the numskull, by-the-numbers gags here amusing, but teens will consider this kids' stuff and adults will be pained.
7. Why, oh dear lord, why?!?
8. How to turn an innocuous comic strip into an obnoxious movie.
9. Someone ought to pay for this.
10. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Castle try hard to re-create a kind of timeless, idealized comic-strip atmosphere, but except for the performances of Lea Thompson and Robert Stanton... nobody in the movie seems in touch with the nature of the comedy.

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Walter Matthau does a nice job as Mr. Wilson, but Dennis the Menace follows the Home Alone formula far too closely.