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05/21/13 |
Good |
 "...reasonably entertaining... if this is all familiar territory even to film-literate young children, it's nonetheless executed with professionalism and a few dashes of panache." |
| 2. |
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05/20/13 |
Poor |
 "...pitiable pointlessness.... thrusts its long-suffering protagonists into a rote chase narrative... loopily plotted... the film's shenanigans feel witlessly arbitrary..." |
| 3. |
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05/04/13 |
Moderate |
 "...holds together just well enough... deals out generous doses of anarchic hijinks without stressing over the narrative connective tissue in between..." |
| 4. |
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03/11/13 |
Fair |
 "...awfully familiar... there's little to differentiate this high-pitched screamer from a particularly feverish 'Law and Order' rerun... veers toward the ickily exploitative..." |
| 5. |
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02/28/13 |
Fair |
 "...works up just enough lukewarm swashbuckling energy to pass muster with bored young children and the Sunday school teachers entrusted with their care..." |
| 6. |
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02/14/13 |
Poor |
 "...spins a tale of Vietnam-era romance so bland that its period inauthenticity begins to exert a surreal fascination." |
| 7. |
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01/25/13 |
Fair |
 "...not a good film, but it has some good things going for it.... it's not outrageously dumber than its revisionist fairy-tale predecessors... 3D work is surprisingly shoddy..." |
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12/17/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a timid, modestly pleasant time-passer distinguished mostly by its unexplored potential.... one of the most homebound road movies in recent memory..." |
| 9. |
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11/01/12 |
Good |
 "As endearing as it is exhausting... a postmodern martial-arts experiment that's equal parts Shaw Brothers, Adult Swim and amphetamine-fueled student film." |
| 10. |
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10/25/12 |
Weak |
 "...a hydra-headed attempt to dirty up the Nickelodeon brand while simultaneously scrubbing raunchy high-school hookup tropes into family-friendly shape... ungainly..." |
| 11. |
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10/10/12 |
Moderate |
 "The forced plotting and Lifetime movie-style tearjerking are a chore... but if this is indeed a good-faith effort to preach beyond the choir, it deserves plaudits." |
| 12. |
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09/08/12 |
Good |
 "...visually impeccable, professionally crafted.... This is filmmaking of great ambition and ability, though it's not always conducive to solid storytelling." |
| 13. |
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08/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "...lovably ridiculous... a welcome throwback.... they just don't make dumb movies like they used to.... deftly straddles the line between stupid and clever for the entirety..." |
| 14. |
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08/16/12 |
Moderate |
 "...deals in such well-worn rise-and-fall music-bio tropes that it's hard to blame it for simply coasting on narrative shorthand at times." |
| 15. |
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07/25/12 |
Fair |
 "As a story about actual human characters, it comes up short, and as a performance film, it's kinetic and acrobatic, yet misses an essential element of artistry." |
| 16. |
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07/03/12 |
Good |
 "Seemingly composed in a laboratory from stray bits of Betty Boop, Sailor Moon and Daphne from 'Scooby-Doo'... an unusually poignant hagiography..." |
| 17. |
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06/14/12 |
Poor |
 "The film's tonal command is such that scenes of Leroy bashing Emilio's head into the cement walls are jarringly played for breezy comedy." |
| 18. |
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05/21/12 |
Good |
 "...survives with the original's spirit largely intact.... so openly nonsensical, with its own rules so arbitrarily applied, that scrutiny is a killjoy." |
| 19. |
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05/01/12 |
Moderate |
 "...odd if amiable... The ultimate mystical purpose of this journey is not entirely clear... one questions the filmmakers' sense of perspective..." |
| 20. |
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04/15/12 |
Moderate |
 "...stunning, almost impossibly intimate... Unfortunately, this footage is welded to a creakily executed story and narrated by a schticky, frequently bellowing Tim Allen..." |
