Critic Reviews
| 75 |
New York Post Adam Buckman
The audition segments are mostly hilarious. |
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
I was often moved by the dedication and heart on display. |
| 50 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Despite all its contrived reality melodrama, ''American Inventor" features a steady stream of entertainingly kooky and cool creations. |
| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The results suggest that everyone involved looked at American Idol too closely. And this time around, everyone is startlingly off-key. |
| 40 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Tonight's premiere is often a huge time-waster, but when it's not boring viewers with the umpteenth meet-the-judges segment and sticks to introducing wacky inventors, it's kind of a hoot. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
How un-innovative is this series about innovation? Let me count the ways. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
[Its] intolerable length helps to illuminate the cynicism of these competition shows. |
| 25 |
Houston Chronicle Mike McDaniel
A bloated disappointment that spends more time on the judges than the inventors and their inventions. |
| 25 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
[A] cheesy carnival of reality TV. |
| 20 |
Variety Brian Lowry
At almost every level, "American Inventor" is over-produced. |
| 10 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
The joke goes from bad to grim within minutes. |
| 10 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
An appalling amalgam of humiliating ridicule, primitive humor and heartbreaking pathos, "American Inventor" flies in on wings of sap. |
| 0 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
A low-rent "American Idol" ripoff. |
| 0 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The worst unscripted outing to hit the airwaves in many a moon. |
| 0 |
Newsday Verne Gay
"American Inventor," ... is unspeakably awful, and makes not just a travesty of the type of television that "American Idol" so dramatically popularized, but an unintentional parody of it as well. |
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