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Barbara Creed said "Although Mushrooms is generally amusing, it fails to reach its full potential as a black comedy because the characters of Minnie and Flo (their names say it all) are, basically, too nice. After several scenes, they become thoroughly predictable consequently, the script has to rely, more and more, on repetition of the main gag for laughs."
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