Ramona and Beezus
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 23, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
16
Negative:
0
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78
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Refreshingly anti-princess and sweet without degrading into sugary, Ramona and Beezus animates Ramona's frequent flights of fancy with DIY-like sequences that literalize, quite charmingly, how a kid colors the world. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is a featherweight G-rated comedy of no consequence, except undoubtedly to kids about Ramona's age. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The overall tone of the film is sunny, with Ramona and Beezus resiliently turning life's lemons into lemonade. Read full review
75
Washington PostDan Kois
Knits together scenes and themes from all eight of Cleary's Ramona Quimby novels into a sweet and funny, if slightly overlong, portrait of life on a modern-day Klickitat Street. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
Newcomer Joey King is funny and adorable as daydreaming 9-year-old Ramona Quimby. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Katie Hewitt
Corbett (of Sex and the City fame) is oddly cast, but still a lovable, if dorky, dad, capable of saving the day. Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria Vizcarrondo
While it isn't the only adaptation to give flesh (or ink) to Cleary's indomitable misfit, it's the most accessible retelling to date. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGlenn Whipp
Director Elizabeth Allen coaxes fine performances from her cast young and old, stumbling only when relying too heavily on musical cues (Katrina & the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine" needs to be permanently retired) and in the film's awkward CGI flights of imaginative fancy. Other than that, the movie is, to quote its young heroine, "terrifical." Read full review
70
TimeMary Pols
A gentle, charming movie and really a parent's dream: a kid's movie that doesn't involve action sequences or explosions. Yet you wish the filmmakers had adhered to Mr. Quimby's no-nonsense point of view and found a way to make this family slightly less squeaky-clean. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
On the other hand, this proud graduate of the School of Cleary Classics wishes that, like the young heroine herself, Ramona and Beezus dared more often to color outside the lines. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Ramona And Beezus has the undeniably nice, pleasantly uninspired feel of film designed to kill time with the kids on a rainy weekend. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
For the record: Josh Duhamel brings some welcome exuberance to the role of the goofball suitor, Hobart. Like Oh, he's fun to watch. This is something never to be underestimated Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Ramona and Beezus are undeniably cute, and the movie that bears their names tries to inject some timeliness, but what many of us will walk away from this movie thinking about are the hot father figures. Read full review
60
MovielineMichelle Orange
Straining for a timeless, family-friendly tone, Allen winds up with something closer to an unironically -- i.e. absurdly -- wholesome rehash of "Leave it to Beaver." Read full review
50
Boston GlobeJanice Page
Ramona and Beezus the movie, should not be confused with "Beezus and Ramona'' the book. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
For the grown-ups there are sweet, sincere performances by Ginnifer Goodwin, Sandra Oh, and, as Ramona's endlessly game father, the likable John Corbett, relieved for once of his drippy rom-com duties. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
It won't change anyone's world, but it'll keep kids happy - and cool - for a couple of hours. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
It's so sentimental and sweet that you can almost forgive the kids' comedy Ramona and Beezus for not being nearly funny enough. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
King is good enough that you can't help but root for her. But frankly, I can't imagine paying full ticket price plus concessions for that privilege. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
Another innocuous film about another unusual girl. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
While its cast delivers uniformly breezy performances, most everything else about Ramona's move to the multiplex feels unremarkable. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike Hale
Parents may also be happy to see a movie for children that doesn't involve wizards, vampires or action figures that can be bought in the food court. They should be warned, though, that the price of contemporary realism is a story that includes layoffs, bickering and unpaid bills. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin Chang
It's not the personal, distinctive portrait of misfit girlhood it could have been. Read full review
50
NPRIan Buckwalter
The film is too frenetically paced and clean to quite recreate the magic of their source material, but it does often face these issues in the same admirably head-on fashion. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
So friction-free that it slips from memory before the credits fade. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
True enough, she's trying to do the right thing. But she never quite gets there. And that gets old, making "Ramona" wear out its welcome long before it should have. Read full review
40
Time OutEric Hynes
A tepid rom-com, replete with a nostalgic Bangles tune. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick Schager
Wholesome to the point of being dull. Read full review
40
EmpireAnna Smith
Fans of the Ramona Quimby books will be disappointed, but tween girls will love it. Read full review
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