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How to Eat Fried Worms
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56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score
4.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 19 Ratings

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  • Starring: Adam Hicks, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Luke Benward
  • Summary: Based on the hugely popular Thomas Rockwell book, How to Eat Fried Worms tells the classic story of a boy whose bravado lands him in a difficult predicament. (New Line Cinema)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    Here's hoping its old-fashioned sensibility appeals to contemporary kids, because we could certainly use more movies as smart and sweet as this one.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    60
    It's the worm set pieces that rule, as our hero must carry out a dare to eat ten worms ten ways between sunup and sundown.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    60
    Boys will be happy at the mild grossness; parents will tolerate anything that entertains their hyperkinetic boys; and sisters will agree with the film's lone girl.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 3 out of 6
  1. TaylorD.
    10
    This movie is AMAZING! To all you people that gave this movie a 0 or anything less than a 9, I hope you realize that this movie has a great moral to it. It is a movie that all ages can enjoy.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. MichelleC.
    7
    This was pretty cute for young school age kids. Definetly has a lesson about bullying, etc. Adults and older kids should find it mildly intertaining, yet nothing to write home about.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. SteveJ.
    3
    I can't really see what the people who made this movie thought the audiences would like about it. The plotline is reasonably bland; the worms are disgusting; the acting is horrible; the characters are generic; many sequences are overexaggerated or just plain unrealistic; none of what is intended to be funny is; and the script is classic for Hollywood: a bland, generic bad guy, a by-the-book protagonist, a girl who is practically perfect that the main character likes, conflict just for the sake of conflict, and an ending that is happy but dosen't really make sense. You might like this movie... if you're 6 years old.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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