Joe Versus the Volcano

The movie doesnt really hit bottom, though, until he has Ryan deliver an ickily earnest monologue about how her character is soul sick. ( Read More )

Jason Bailey

It speaks to the commercial and critical success of Shanleys 1987 hit Moonstruck that he was handed, by a major studio, the resources to make a movie as unapologetically weird as this one. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

Joe Versus the Volcano achieves a kind of magnificent goofiness. Hanks and Ryan are the right actors to inhabit it, because you can never catch them going for a gag that isnt there: They inhabit the logic of this bizarre world and play by its rules. ( Read More )

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Director John Patrick Shanley characterized this film as a yarn about courage and a mans soul. ( Read More )

James Berardinelli

Hanks doesnt have to work too hard Joe is infused with the actors natural likability, and thats all thats necessary. ( Read More )