Leave It to Beaver
American Broadcasting Company (ABC) | Release Date: August 22, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
7
Negative:
5
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37
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Dead-on imitations of some of the characters from the television series created by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly will seem pointlessly stylized to viewers unfamiliar with the old sitcom. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
All but the most easily pleased kids will be bored as can be, and anyone who has fond memories of TV's Leave It to Beaver would probably rather not besmirch them. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Instead of defining and spoofing its period, its attitude and its social barometer, Leave It to Beaver just stumbles about in a bland, irony-deprived suburbia that denies the movie any juice or bite and renders the Cleaver family even duller than it was. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
I wouldn't say this movie is actually harmful, but skipping it is probably the wisest policy. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
The humor in Leave It to Beaver is doggedly bland, with a conventional story line that's no more inventive than watching four episodes of the TV show scrunched together and interwoven. [22 Aug 1997, p.F6]
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