Reception
Problem Child was not screened for critics prior to its release. It received overwhelmingly negative reviews upon its release and currently holds a 7% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 4.7 out of 10 on Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
Hal Hinson, writing for the Washington Post, noted "Dugan has a brisk, imaginative comic style; he sets up his gags well, so that there's still some surprise in the punch lines when they come. Essentially, the problem here is the same as the problem in Gremlins 2. It's basically about tearing stuff up, and after a while you grow tired of seeing variations on the same joke of a cute kid committing horrible atrocities."
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