Charlotte's Web Reviews
Top CriticSome will bristle at liberties taken. Cows do indeed break wind. Yet the movie's use of flatulence is less a nod to rural truths than a reliance on what has become a go-to gag in movie's made for the booster-seat set.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Film Journal International
Manages to snuff the spark that has made Charlotte's Web so beloved over the years.
EricDSnider.com
It's a beautiful story, rendered only semi-precious in this earnest but flawed re-creation.
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| Original Score: C+
ReelzChannel.com
This Charlotte's Web is a live-action remake, à la Babe. And while the live action distinguishes it from its cartoon predecessor of 1973, it makes it bear entirely too much resemblance to the Babe series.
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| Original Score: 6/10
This highly polished picture is superficially faithful, even reverential to its source, but evinces neither imagination nor a personality of its own.
OhmyNews.com
I'm having great trouble understanding why the 2006 live-action adaptation doesn't register more profoundly. Oh wait, it's the farting. It's always the farting.
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| Original Score: D+
Charlotte's Web, with its insistently 'magical' theme music, an overbearing climax and a trough full of bad jokes, is merely adequate.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
ColeSmithey.com
Steve Buscemi's invigorating vocal characterization of Templeton the rat is the only high point in this sleep-inducing live action-animated revamp of the 1973 animated classic based on E.B White's 1952 children's book.
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| Original Score: C-
Filmcritic.com
doesn't really encroach on the legacy and success of its animated ancestor
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| Original Score: 3/5
eFilmCritic.com
Charlotte herself has been turned from a small, grey spider into a creature with a furry, teddy bear face. The result is an odd blend of Wilfred Brimley, Grizzly Adams, and Fozzie Bear.
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| Original Score: 0/5
Cinema em Cena
Uma adaptação burocrática e sem vida.
| Original Score: 2/5
Unfortunately, Charlotte's Web is an unremarkable collection of cute kids, talking animals and syrupy sentiment. There's little of White's original spare style and even less to entertain anyone but the very undemanding.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Daily Mirror [UK]
Most of the problem is that everything feels very familiar, while the movie's moralising tone grates very quickly.
Charlotte Weekly
Winick's Web can't contend with White's lyrical book or the flawless animated feature in the long run.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Times [UK]
Adult audiences tend to find [Dakota Fanning] rather shrill - witnessing [her] at full shriek is like being attacked by a colony of bats. For this reason, Charlotte's Web is probably one for youngsters only.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Boulder Weekly
Despite all of Winick's best efforts to Disneyfy the bearded Charlotte, she still looks alarmingly like an eight-legged beatnik.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Atlantic City Weekly
Babe, the movie that set the standard for the GCI talking critter flicks, was so much better ...
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
To paraphrase the novel's famous last lines, it's not often a story comes along that can make for both a great book and a wonderful movie. Charlotte's Web isn't both.
Film Blather
It doesn't turn E.B. White into a travesty, but it manages to make him border on inane.
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| Original Score: C+
[The film] relies heavily on the voices, though the actors are sometimes miscast (Julia Roberts as the spider) or chosen more for their on-screen personas than their pipes (Steve Buscemi as the rat).
