everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

For what it's worth it's a good movie. Dennis is cute and unintentionally mischievous making him a pest to his neighbor Mr. Wilson. The story's not the greatest but it's good enough to be believed. Everything seems to fall into place such as the gags and the lines. The movie basically chronicles the misadventures both Dennis and Mr. Wilson face everyday. Christopher Lloyd's character as the reclusive serial killer is strange yet fits in still. In conclusion the movie's a great family movie and i'd recommend it to anyone.

There are so many wonderful family movies during the 90s, and Dennis the Menace is one of them. Personally, it's one of my favourite family movies out there - very entertaining! What I enjoyed the most about this movie was the humour. The story is fun. It's a movie that can teach you some valuable life lessons too. I use to watch this a countless number of times as a child, and just fell in love with it.

I know a lot of people bash this movie, and it is nothing special, but we thought it was a charming and (at least occasionally) very funny movie to "waste" an hour and a half on. I didn't even know John Hughes did this one until I visited this page! But I'm not surprised because, like many of John Hughes's other movies, this big screen adaptation of Dennis the Menace is funny, well written and on top of that it also has a lot of "heart" to boot.Christopher Lloyd being in the movie was a nice surprise and he does a very good job as the comic criminal foil to Dennis. I felt bad for him even while laughing at his pain. (He is basically like the wet bandits characters from the Home Alone series Hughes also did, though the first Home Alone is better than this.) Walter Matthau is fantastic as always in the role of a bitter, sourpuss type of old man neighbour, who Dennis is always annoying and damaging the property of.It's predictable and not very serious but there are lots of good family friendly laughs with a good story and performances, and it hits the spot.It even has a big, stinky flower!

I never read the "Dennis the Menace" comics, but have watched the cartoon and the old black and white TV show. They were more interesting than this movie version, where Dennis' (Mason Gamble) have to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson (Walter Matthau) and (Joan Plowright) after his parents go out of town, and tries to be helpful to Mr. Wilson, but ended up being an annoying menace to him.This movie made me laugh at certain points, but thought the endless pranks Dennis played on Mr. Wilson went overboard, making the man hate on the kid than trying to get along with him, like the character development you see between the two characters in the TV series. You almost feel no sympathy for Dennis and feel sorry for Mr. Wilson for all he went through.The acting was quite good, nonetheless, and you see some innocent and sincere themes in the movie, especially involving the kids. However, I think this is a film best left for the younger ones.Grade C-