| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 22, 1994 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
4
Mixed:
9
Negative:
14
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Critic Reviews
How can Reiner, who has been terrific in the past with both comedy ("This is Spinal Tap," "When Harry Met Sally") and children ("Stand By Me"), come up with something like "North," a movie that may set some kind of record for unfunny humor, forced satire and unappealing kids? [22 Jul 1994, p.C2]
The problems with North go beyond casting, however, way back to the movie's central idea and to the filmmakers' failure to think it through. [22 Jul 1994, p.23]
The movie sometimes gets airborne, but with an obvious strain that hurts an airy fantasy like "North." [22 Jul 1994, p.31]
Reiner, who demonstrated an affinity for storybook yarns with The Princess Bride and sensitively addressed coming-of-age issues with Stand By Me, has trouble getting beyond the episodic nature of Zweibel and Scheinman's screenplay. [22 Jul 1994, p.03]
North shows all the signs of being one of those movies that get "straightened out" in post production, with any life they have being squeezed out in the process. [29 Jul 1994, p.9]
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