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Kid, The
Walt Disney Co.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG
Starring
Bruce Willis,
Spencer Breslin,
Emily Mortimer,
Lily Tomlin,
Chi McBride,
Jean Smart,
and
Dana Ivey
Sent from the 1970's to the present to help his older self, a kid (Breslin), now an unhappy image consultant (Willis), gets in touch with who he used to be.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Audrey Wells
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jon Turteltaub
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 16, 2001
Video: January 16, 2001
Theatrical: July 7, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
104 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The result is fine fantasy fun.
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
It's Willis who delivers the goods in scene after scene, triumphing over a thin script, often bland direction.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Warm-hearted and effective.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A parable for adults -- particularly men.
70
Time
Richard Schickel
It's a modest little fantasy. But it's also well made, unpretentious and refreshing.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Too bad The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations. It has more going for it than you might suppose.
63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
A pleasantly lightweight confection.
60
Dallas Observer
Andy Klein
This is quintessential "family entertainment."
60
TNT RoughCut
Susannah Breslin
An utterly competent, systematically entertaining summer movie.
60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Vigilant viewers may spend many of the 101 minutes fixating on tiny holes in the plot, but I was busy being moved by the premise and the filmmakers' confidence in the power of their metaphor: a little boy who's disappointed in the man he grew up to be.
60
Newsweek
David Ansen
But if the endpoint is a homiletic given, the journey itself is more charming, and less sentimental, than you might suspect.
60
Film.com
Peter Brunette
It's solid, if ultimately uninspired, July entertainment.
50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
This boomer-coddling comic fantasy, in which a callous adult on the brink of 40 has a chance encounter with his pudgy, lisping 8-year-old self, is an iffier what-if.
50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Audrey Wells's script and Turteltaub's presentation ring true just often enough to prevent the comedy from descending forever into Cutesy-Wutesy Hell.
50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Perfectly acceptable entertainment in the Mouse Factory's most familiar vein.
50
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
There isn't a moment in the film that isn't overhyped.
50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A movie we might like to buy into if left to our own devices, but that idea is anathema to Turteltaub, intent on pushing us so hard that we end up pushing back.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
This slight, predictable comedy has appealing moments.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
There's nothing Disneyesque about this bomb except the forced levity of its musical score.
50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Surprisingly enough, it often soars to heights of not bad.
45
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Every time the movie seems poised to veer into watchability, however, Turteltaub is there, like a beat cop for the Fun Police, reminding us to laugh, sigh, or tear up.
42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Willis and Breslin are stuck in a charmless, predictable picture they can't escape.
40
TV Guide
Steve Simels
Manipulative but fitfully entertaining "Twilight Zone"-ish comedy of redemption.
40
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
A lightweight, intermittently engaging comedy.
40
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The comic screenplay...pivots on a toothless premise: Russ needs to get in touch with his inner child.
38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Neither can I imagine many sane adults wanting to put themselves through this movie.
38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Falls flat on its face.
30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
So rich in processed sugar, canned sentiment and schmaltz, I thought I was going to throw up.
25
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
Deadly dull.
25
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Wields its Middle America values and moralistic flogging of idiosyncratic lifestyle choices like a flipped bird.
20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Director Jon Turteltaub's insistence upon hammering every point home with giant closeups and relentless musical underlining makes this insufferably cloying and sickly sweet.
10
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The Kid's denouement resembles the nightmare that would have transpired had execs foisted a toupee and a happy ending on "12 Monkeys."
 The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
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