Lots of sight gags and one-liners are attempted, but few of them succeed. The cast is talented but stranded in weak material.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

there is so little genuine wit to be found in ''Clue.'' The film does have a speedy pace, but that could hardly be confused with Mr. Hawks's madcap humor; instead, it involves a lot of running around through secret passages, and some slapstick routines involving dead bodies. The actors are meant to function as an ensemble, but that merely means that they often repeat the same line simultaneously.

Janet Maslin

The New York Times