Vincent Wants to Sea
Corinth Films | Release Date: June 24, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisJul 14, 2011
This is a bright, broad, silly, harmless movie whose sweetness is a means to an end. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineKalvin HenelyJun 21, 2011
Complacent with road-movie tropes, director Ralf Huettner and screenwriter Florian David Fitz's Vincent Wants to Sea is likeable insofar as it's familiar. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenJun 24, 2011
The picture's quiet performances and occasionally surprising moments take it just far enough off the beaten path to make it more than a transparently formulaic feel-good story. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAug 19, 2011
Despite the oddly literate title, Vincent Wants to Sea never deviates from the predictable bonding-through-misadventure script, and it has little to teach us about the nature and treatment of the traveler's respective maladies. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJun 30, 2011
What's missing is any of the real-life messiness that might have lifted this material from its creatively tic-ridden confines. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyJun 24, 2011
Trapped inside the German film Vincent Wants to Sea there's an affecting father-son drama, an amusing road movie, a quirky romantic comedy and a non-patronizing take on mental illness. What we actually get - a homogenized movie-of-the-week set against the Alps and punctuated by anodyne English-language pop songs - brought out the cynic in me. Read full review
20
The New York TimesPaul BrunickJun 27, 2011
The principal characters can be reduced to a handful of tics, and the entire story line is immaculately devoid of incidental detail. It's like sitting in a padded cell for about 90 minutes. Read full review
20
Time OutSam AdamsJun 21, 2011
If Vincent Wants to Sea proves nothing else, it's that a moronically quirky take on mental illness is no more palatable when it's subtitled. Read full review
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