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70The movie is, by and large, smarter than the gross-out tactics that pass for hilarity in many mainstream adult comedies.
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Oct 25, 201270Movie merits include a good cast, a tidy script and jokes just provocative enough.
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Oct 23, 201270The fundamental Schwartz touch applies: In the guise of a narrowly targeted tween flick, he has delivered a smart and emotionally satisfying slice of wish fulfillment, tracing how a threatened family finds harmony.
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Oct 25, 201265Bear in mind that Fun Size is the only comedy in recent memory to feature a Ruth Bader Ginsburg joke. You won't find any of those in the "Hangover" movies' bag of tricks.
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63It pairs modern attitude with John Hughesian tropes, and it's odd enough, in spurts, to boast originality.
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63Compared to most teen comedies these days, Fun Size is almost touchingly tame.
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Oct 26, 201260Still, it's hard not to think that there's a darker, funnier movie in there waiting to get out. In the meantime, we'll always have the humping chicken.
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Oct 25, 201260By the end of this romp, Fun Size actually accomplished something charming: sentimentality without normality.
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50Well written but weakly executed, it's hard to imagine anyone is going to cherish the film, if they even remember it in three months' time.
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Oct 25, 201250Transiently entertaining, with intermittent sparks, it'll do until something better comes along.
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50Imagine "Little Miss Sunshine's" dark materials (and superior craftsmanship) diluted with a Hannah Montana-like sunny silliness – which is to say: sometimes funny, often broad-stroked, ever sweet, and landing shy of its potential.
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Nov 4, 201240The cast try hard and are rewarded with some zesty dialogue, but remain shackled to the girl-with-dead-dad-grows-up formula.
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40Fun Size isn't good enough to ascend to those John Hughesian ranks, and its small holiday window means it won't scarf much box office. But at least first time feature director Josh Schwartz can expect a minor slumber party hit on DVD.
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40This Nickelodeon production may be designed for short attention spans, but must the characters have them as well?
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Oct 25, 201240Of course, questionable propriety would be a moot point if the film were consistently funny, but its hit-to-miss ratio is dire.
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38Fun is hiding behind a bad movie costume in this humorless and idiotic Halloween teen comedy.
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38All over the map in the details it throws at us, and the level of immaturity it aims for.
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33Aiming for a trifecta of small kids, their older sisters and parents in the audience, Fun Size fails them all in a movie that is neither a trick nor a treat.
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Oct 25, 201233A laborious comedy about a Halloween night in Cleveland that feels too grown up in half of its storylines to suit younger audiences, and too juvenile or nonsensical in the rest of its gags to please anyone else.
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Oct 24, 201233This movie has no courage and little brains, and is salvaged, if at all, only by its heart. There remains a huge market for a great Halloween teen comedy, but Fun Size is the disappointing apple that your crazy-haired neighbor gives you instead of candy.
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30There is something admirable about Fun Size. Not in how it succeeds, because it doesn't. Whoo, boy, it doesn't. Rather, in how bad it is on so many levels, in how it will offend and disappoint different segments of its audience for different reasons. It's an equal-opportunity bad movie. Something to hate for everyone! [25 Oct 2012]
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Oct 26, 201225A 90-minute theatrical release from Nickelodeon Productions that, if anything, should have aired as a half-hour Nickelodeon special.
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Nov 4, 201220Someday, all US cinema may come to look like this: indifferently shot random events happening to semi-recognisable TV faces.
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12Molly Ringwald-like, Wren must choose between two guys: the nerdy Roosevelt (Thomas Mann) and the Porsche-driving Aaron (Thomas McDonell), but both are so dull it's hard to care. So feeble is the movie that even the wacky, redheaded best friend (Jane Levy) isn't funny.
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0It's a soul-crusher, and when I say it may be the most dehumanizing experience since "Hostel: Part II" the comparison is not an idle one.