There is a funny movie lurking at the edges of Splash, and sometimes it even sneaks on screen and makes us smile. It's too bad the relentlessly conventional minds that made this movie couldn't have made the leap from sitcom to comedy.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The movie that really showed Tom Hanks' promise as a deliverer of great comedy and heart-warming pathos.

Ian Freer

Empire

Splash could have been shorter, but it probably couldn't have been much sweeter. Only purists will quibble with the blissfully happy ending, which has the lovers swimming through a shimmering underwater paradise that is supposed to be the bottom of the East River.

Janet Maslin

The New York Times