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Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 19
  2. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. 75
    The film is upbeat, wholesome, chirpy, positive, sunny, cheerful, optimistic and squeaky-clean. It bears so little resemblance to the more complicated worlds of many members of its target audience (girls 4 to 11) that it may work as pure escapism.
  2. 60
    A teen-anxiety movie that leaves no doubt where it stands on "family values" and moral absolutes: It approves. The shock troops of the Cinema Without Limits army are unlikely to buy many tickets, but those who do will probably see the thing as sanctimonious pabulum -- even for its target audience of adolescents.
  3. The kids in this syrupy family picture are spunky tykes and the adults are dolts, but Wood is worth watching because she's so clearly ready to play nobody's girl but her own.
  4. It's a fable that descends rapidly into nonsense.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6

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