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- 2020
- PG
- Disney+
- 1 h 39 m
- 2020
- PG
- Disney+
- 1 h 39 m
Summary An 11-year old boy who believes that he is the best detective in town runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.
Directed By: Tom McCarthy
Written By: Stephan Pastis, Tom McCarthy
- 2020
- PG
- Disney+
- 1 h 39 m
- 2020
- PG
- Disney+
- 1 h 39 m
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
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6.5
Summary An 11-year old boy who believes that he is the best detective in town runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.
Directed By: Tom McCarthy
Written By: Stephan Pastis, Tom McCarthy
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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44% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
60
56% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
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4 Reviews
0% Negative
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If you're reading this review because you're wondering what to cue up on your Disney+ subscription, Timmy Failure is the best of the new service's original programs by a wide margin. (Take that, you one-note Baby Yoda.)
One of those quick-witted films in which if one character or plot thread doesn’t work for you, all you have to do is wait a minute for another.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.5
58% Positive
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25% Mixed
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17% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.5
58% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
25% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
17% Negative
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from "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis and Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy comes the funniest film I've seen in years. Kids will love it and adults might like it even more. Great performances abound and the script is tighter than my Uncle Phil at a Quinceañera.
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Oregon weird and wonderful. A really good kids and adult film with humor and smarts. A charmer that showcases Portland's uniqueness, coupled with with great acting and outstanding film production skills. You really wish Timmy on as life, adults, reality, and growing up all collide in a very memorable film. A movie I will watch again very soon!
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It walks the fine line between being too whimsical and too dramatic, yet maintains that delicate balancing act over the course of its entire runtime.
Think of Timmy Failure like a food truck: the best ones do one or two things really well, and commit to just doing those things. With McCarthy et al., Timmy Failure‘s virtues are an expertly-delivered dry wit that works for kids and adults alike, and a series of adorable performances, from Fegley and the rest of the kids to the all-too-game adults.
A frothy fantasy about a boy and his bear that makes up for in style what it lacks in substance.
The quiet humanity of McCarthy’s filmmaking meshes oddly with the material’s zanier demands, finally reaching an anodyne middle ground.
There isn’t enough in the way of good jokes or clever references to investigators of yore to make the film appealing, and the flatness of Timmy’s delivery, which is supposed to scan as deadpan, doesn’t contain enough nuances to make much of the humor land.
Timmy Failure, Mistakes Were Made is a very fun, incredibly charming story of imagination and the fun of a odd-outlook on life. It’s adapted from the book written by Stephen Pastis, creator of newspaper comic Pearls Before Swine, so you know there will be a strong, often-slightly-demented and odd sense of humor (hell, it is in Portland Oregon and leans into its setting’s oddity) through this story of an 11-year-old detective. Timmy has a bad-haircut and a heck of an imagination, he talks to his (thankfully) voiceless imaginary polar bear, and has imaginary story cut-aways like Doug or JD on Scrubs. He seems himself as an Encyclopedia Brown, coming up with an elaborate plot going on his town. It’s sweet and fun and a great family flick. The relationship he has with his mother Lovegood (she was the titular character in Autopsy of Jane Done, good to see her up and about!) is true. There is a dark cloud in their lives of her money-troubles and other issues, and that allows a truer nature to this flick. Yeah, I recommend it.
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Production Company
Etalon Film,
Walt Disney Pictures,
Whitaker Entertainment I
Release Date Feb 7, 2020
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating PG
Tagline Small Detective. Big Imagination.
Awards
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 2 Nominations
Annie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
