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Everyone's Hero
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Everyone's Hero reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 51 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.8 out of 10
based on 20 reviews
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MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences

Starring Jake T. Austin, Raven, Whoopi Goldberg, Rob Reiner, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Dana Reeve, and Brian Dennehy

What if you had one chance to be a hero? Would you take it? Or play it safe? That is the question facing an ordinary boy in Everyone's Hero, a funny and warm tale of a kid who believes he can make a difference if he just hangs in there despite overwhelming odds. (20th Century Fox)


GENRE(S): Adventure  |  Animation  |  Comedy  |  Family/Kids  
WRITTEN BY: Robert Kurtz
Jeff Hand
Howard Jonas (story)
 
DIRECTED BY: Colin Brady
Christopher Reeve
Dan St. Pierre
 
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 20, 2007 
Theatrical: September 15, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Canada / USA 

What The Critics Said

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75
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Whoever wanders into the theater should leave a winner.
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70
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
The movie's antique Rockwellian look is its greatest pleasure.
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70
Chicago Reader Joshua Katzman
There's still plenty to recommend it, including memorable characters, solid storytelling, and accurate period detail.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirshling
Everyone's Hero re-creates Depression-era America with surprisingly agreeable anachronistic panache, but a sassy ball and bat don't cut it as compelling cartoon characters, and the not-so-human humans never quite do either (Babe Ruth looks like Shrek).
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63
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Probably the last movie to carry a credit for the late Christopher Reeve--as well as the last credit for Reeve's late wife, Dana.
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63
USA Today Staff [Not Credited]
A sweet, inspirational movie that doesn't offer any surprises, but entertains youthful audiences in a gentle, almost old-fashioned way.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Manny Lewis
Grown-ups, depending on how in touch they are with their inner child, will be split during most of this, inspired to either smile or roll their eyes.
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58
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
The final resolution is silly by just about any standard. A little grounding in reality and a larger effort to avoid the trite could have made Everyone's Hero fun and inspirational for everybody, not just the very young.
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50
Boston Globe Janice Page
Everyone's Hero is sincere and heartwarming; sometimes it's funny.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
A strange film, because it seems designed specifically for extremely old moviegoers to see with their great-great-grandchildren.
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50
Variety Joe Leydon
Neither a grand slam nor a strikeout, Everyone's Hero is minor-league animated entertainment.
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50
New York Post Kyle Smith
Everyone's Hero, a tame CGI cartoon for the simple-minded: the very young, the very old and Yankee fans.
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50
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The movie is a feast of miscalculations. It turns out that neither a bat nor a ball make for an enchanting child's companion, lacking as they do the ability to move or express emotion.
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50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Mark Medley
Some films, like "Shrek," "The Incredibles" and "Finding Nemo," manage to strike the right balance. Others, like Everyone's Hero -- opening today -- do not.
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50
Los Angeles Times John Anderson
Subtle it is not. Well-intentioned it certainly is. No one but the youngest in the family will care very much about it, though. And they may well be filled with wonderment trying to figure out what this big Babe person is all about.
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50
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Everyone's Hero enters multiplexes already shadowed by tragedy. And while that may not be the best start for a kiddie feature, the movie's sentimental provenance could earn it a critical pass it doesn't deserve.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
A tweener but not necessarily a good one. It falls into the gap between good intentions and faulty storytelling.
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40
Austin Chronicle Brian Clark
For anyone over the age of nine, Yankee's journey is ultimately a dull one paved with good intentions.
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25
The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
It's a shallow, treacly movie for children too little to question its many pointless puerilities. But do kids that young really belong in a theater? Keep 'em at home and wait for this to hit cable.
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25
TV Guide Ethan Alter
An anemic adventure that epitomizes generic feature animation.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 3.8 (out of 10) based on 21 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Melf gave it a7:
I'm an inveterate baseball fan, but not a Yankee fan. I thought it was cute. Our 2-year-old grandson loved it.

Myles #13 gave it a3:
You can see sparks of what might've been, but Everyone's Hero turns out to be a rehash of almost every cartoon to date... except without the funnies, the charm or the script to back it up. Honestly, I'm not a cartoon hater... but this is one cartoon I would NOT see again.

Jordan G. gave it a0:
It was boring. It was horrible. Not only does it have no humor pointed at people over 5, but the parts they tried to make funny were undoubtly pathetic. Talking baseballs and bats don't amuse tweens, teens, or adults, the only thing that this sort of thing amuses is 5 year-olds. Horrible

Dan W. gave it an8:
It bored me frankly, but our three kids (5, 7, 10) really liked it, and were talking about it until bed. I was pleased that there was nothing in it that made me worry about what the younger two were seeing.

Sam gave it a0:
F. Utter annoying waste of time. So bad its almost good. But so bad nobody should have to sit through it. When it becomes so bad its good that sets it into negative numbers and does not increase its talent.

Tiny Tim gave it a3:
So utterly unbelievably bad. But so bad its so amazingly entertaining that you end up somewhat enjoying yourself. That, however does not earn it anything of praise, it just earns it a fun afternoon and a reflection on how bad movies can truly get.

Matt L. gave it a0:
This movie throws together everything that makes animation movies good. Jokes, laughs, and kiddie plot. However, when it all comes together, all of the things that it puts together completley fale. If falls flat and dry and ends up being a animated movie only with potentional and never with talent. The annoying subplot and repetititive stupidity make this movie as bad as it can get. Goes down in my history of viewing films, as the worst animated picture of all time.

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