Critic Reviews
| 88 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
An entertaining, occasionally illuminating autodocumentary.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
For a film devoted to celebrating intimacy and the breaking down of emotional barriers, Pop and Me is oddly withholding of information about the travelers.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
A documentary made with rigor, humor and no small amount of honest emotion.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
The film quickly becomes a vortex of father-son bonding and rivalry, and what could have been a mere travelogue becomes a bumpy exploration of male identity and communication.
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| 70 |
Mr. Showbiz
A satisfying, sentimental trip.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
Everybody likes to watch the messy guts-stuff of other peoples' lives, if only because we know then we're not alone in our weird ways.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
A funny, perceptive and seductively engaging movie.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
Lots of men cry lots of tears in this supremely self-indulgent, supremely moving documentary about making a documentary.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
The ultimate shallowness of this film is reflected in the fact that their key bonding moment occurs when they bungee-jump off a bridge together.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
The most revelatory moment is provided not by the spectacle of the Roes clinging to each other on a bungee cord, but by Julian Lennon, who pops up on the beach in Monaco to give a terse evaluation of his father.
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| 38 |
New York Post
Hanna Brown
A self-indulgent chronicle of Chris Roe's whiny power struggle with his father over where to eat dinner in various exotic locales.
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