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75Just plain fun.
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75The story is also engaging and hip enough to make it a far easier sit for parents. And it's hard not to like a hero who takes public transportation to a showdown with the bad guy.
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It is great summer fun.
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67The ethical, independent-minded kid has his unhip charms, and so does Hey Arnold! The Movie.
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63If your kids are old enough to safely see the movie by themselves, drop 'em off and pick 'em up after. You don't need to see this one.
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63The movie feels like a long-form version of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series on which it's based, which probably won't bother Arnold fans.
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60Essentially a feature-length episode of the popular Nickelodeon animated series, this faithful expansion is savvy enough to stay put.
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60The rough, watercolor washes of its city backdrops mark the film with nostalgia while its story carries us along at an amiable, buoyant pace.
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Hey Arnold "don't get no respect," it's not half bad, either. Kids will certainly like it. For adults, it's perfectly watchable in a Rugrats sort of way.
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50It's a refreshing theme for a kids' movie, one that incorporates history and urban flavor, not to mention a preservationists' perspective, into the usual mix.
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50The updated Dickensian sensibility of writer Craig Bartlett's story is appealing.
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50That may be enough to keep the kids bobbing along -- and there are worse heroes for a kid to have than Arnold -- but apart from the shenanigans of civil-disobedient senior citizens, this movie offers little to keep accompanying parents interested.
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50Nothing about Hey Arnold! The Movie cries out for the big-screen treatment, but it at least makes the transition from television to film with its charm intact.
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50The cause is just. But there's something off-kilter about the mix. Maybe it's because the animation retains its TV flatness while the story's texture is gratuitously bulked up.
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50Blown up way past television-set size, the animated film's squiggly lines and rushed renditions are pale and blurry. This may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar.
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50Has surprising hipness and good humor to spare, all put across with a funky, low-tech vibe.
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50Just barely diverting, even at under 80 minutes -- a TV episode inflated past its natural length.
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40Inoffensive and sporadically funny, its chief charm is Arnold's ridiculous noggin, and that's not saying much.
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40The simplistic drawing is closer to "Peanuts" than "The Lion King," and the dialogue is strangely anachronistic.
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38Could easily be just another episode of "Hey Arnold!" the TV show. Except that it's three times as long, and not half as much fun.
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38The ugly duckling of Nickelodeon's after-bath lineup. That's its strength.
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38It's a drab jumble of meaningless action, dull characters and animation as flat and superficial as its story.
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20Neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly well drawn.
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