Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Richard Corliss,TIME Magazine
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03/26/2009 @ 12:00 AM
Drawn from real life, the conflict between cultures is good for both a laugh and a sober thought along the way. Variety Staff,Variety
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05/20/2003 @ 12:00 AM
It's more cheerful than funny, and so insistently ungrudging about Americans and Japanese alike that its satire cuts like a wet sponge. Vincent Canby,New York Times
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01/01/2000 @ 12:00 AM
A disappointment, a movie in which the Japanese are mostly used for the mechanical requirements of the plot, and the Americans are constructed from durable but boring stereotypes. Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times