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- 80Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLos Angeles TimesSheila BensonOne Red Shoe has trying moments (the sewer-man joke; the awful fate of Belushi’s character), but the rest of it whirls by as summer comedy ought to, and rarely does.
- 63Miami HeraldMiami HeraldFans of the droll style of actor Tom Hanks will chuckle through The Man With One Red Shoe, a story that builds a comic house of cards on a mistaken identity. [20 July 1985, p.4]
- 38Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelLeave it to an American production team to remake the same premise into an inarguably worse movie. And this insufferable remake called The Man with One Red Shoe marks the second time in as many years that producer Victor Drai, a former estate developer, has taken a French movie and turned it into garbage. Last year he took the genuinely amusing ''Pardon Mon Affair'' and reworked it with the help of the increasingly annoying Gene Wilder into ''The Lady in Red,'' one of the year`s worst movies.
- 38The Associated PressBob ThomasThe Associated PressBob ThomasHanks has proved in TV's "Bosom Buddies" and in "Splash" that he is one of the best of today's light comedians, but he has little chance to display his talents here. [12 Aug 1985]
- 30The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinIt's mostly just slight, and none of it elicits more than the mildest of chuckles.
- 30Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrIt settles uneasily on the back of a verbal comic like Hanks—the movie keeps setting up gags that never quite materialize, and Hanks, unable to fill out his underwritten part with slapstick, is left stranded. Without any big laughs to even out the film's tone, the balance gradually shifts to the grim paranoia of the basic conception, and the movie that emerges seems oddly bleak and melancholic.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBoth of us have seen "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe," the French comedy that inspired this Hollywood retread. The French movie is about a case of mistaken identity. The American movie is about the same case of mistaken identity. The French have a name for this phenomenon: deja vu. So do we: ripoff.
- 25TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineWhat was a subtle farce when directed by Yves Robert in French becomes an overstated comedy here, with all the actors hamming it up to no end.
- 20Washington PostPaul AttanasioWashington PostPaul AttanasioNearly unwatchable.