Fun Size Reviews

"Trick or Treat, Bitch"

Fun Size was a fun movie. It's not great in any means. But it made me laugh and gave me the mind numbing I was looking for. The little boy playing Albert was really funny. He is the best part of the movie. This movie is for a teen audience. I have a teen, so therefore I watch a plenty of these films. It's not the worse one I've seen of the bunch, but it's definitely too mature for younger kids and too immature for us adults. But it still made me laugh and exceeded in keeping my mind from wandering. I'd probably see it again. It's just one of those movies you can see or pass. Up to you.

Some people just can't handle Halloween.

Good movie! I can understand where some people would really be down on this film. There is no doubt that it is full of clichés, in fact every character nearly reeks of cliché. TV master Josh Schwartz helms this film and he has certainly created and worked on some truly great TV shows and I'm not sure this is his best creation but he definitely sincerely tries. I couldn't help but laugh my way through this. The Chicken shack scene was priceless and despite being cliché so many of the physical comedy scenes, and situations that they get into are genuinely funny and certainly worth watching if you can put your expectations in check.

Wren's Halloween plans go awry when she's made to babysit her brother, who disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. With her best friend and two nerds at her side, she needs to find her brother before her mom finds out he's missing.

"Fun Size" is a teen comedy about a girl who is on her way to a Halloween party, when she gets stuck with the job of taking her weird brother trick or treating. She loses her brother, and from there spends the night with her friends searching for him, while he gets into all kind of trouble himself. Kind of an "adventures of babysitting" type of movie. It's fun, and has some funny moments, but overall it's just a "meh" movie. It's short at 86 moments, and at times you'll check the time, because your ready for it to end. The funniest moments are with the little boy, Albert, and he steals the movie even though he barely speaks a work. This is worth a redbox rental or a bootleg, but anything more and it's a waste, unless your a teen.

I can just imagine it now: the execs at Paramount sadly watching all of the movies aimed for teenagers flopping, one after the other. Aside from Twilight or "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," the teen genre is one that films should mostly stay the hell away from unless they are of a "Superbad" or the aforementioned "Wallflower" quality. Instead of putting a little more effort into the next attempt, Paramount clearly decided to simply go the complete other direction and take a kid's movie as close to an "R" rating as possible. And make a Nickelodeon movie to boot.
And they got pretty damn close to getting it right. To the movie's unending credit, the main cast are actually a bit too good for this sort of thing. Victoria Justice is actually much better than I could have ever expected. Despite being several years older than an actual teenager, she actually does hit the mannerisms of a teenage girl perfectly. Even as piss-poor as the script is, which I'll get to, she still redeems herself. Jane Levy, playing the supporting role of "bitchy best friend," is supremely annoying, but in a surprisingly bearable way. For whatever reason, Johnny Knoxville's in this movie too.
Apart from them and the two male romantic leads played by Thomas Mann of "Project X" and an Asian guy whose name I don't know, the rest of the film's cast is complete ass. There's a stereotypical bad-boy rock star type, but he's given nothing to do other than understandably pine for Justice. Chelsea Handler plays the slutty mom of Justice's character, and should've won a Razzie.
Much like most movies for teenagers, it completely screws up when it comes to how teenagers talk and interact. Jane Levy's character is given most of the crappy dialogue, unfortunately. The plot is also obvious from the beginning, and I literally predicted every plot point almost exactly the way it happened.
So yeah, this is decidedly average. Justice has potential, and if she gets lucky, she may even be an actual movie star someday.

Fun Size is a Nickelodeon release, and it's their second PG-13 movie. The first one went straight to DVD, and this one probably should have also. It's a mess of a movie that seemed more focused on being mean and getting that PG-13 rating than making a good film.

Wren, a teen trying to discover herself and recover from her fathers relatively recent passing, has to skip a popular kid's Halloween party to take her brother, who stopped speaking and is sadistic, trick or treating while her mother Joy goes to a party with her twenty-something boyfriend (also grieving from her husbands death). Her brother gets lost and she has to find him with help from her best friend and a geek with a crush on her.

Fun Size honestly has the cast to pull off this movie. The reason I know this is that I found that I liked the characters at the end. Not all of them, I didn't like her little brother and her best friend was mean. Chelsea Handler is an entertaining actress, and proves this time and again. I like seeing Riki Lindhome in the few roles she gets, and Johnny Knoxville is up there with Handler: he's entertaining.

My biggest problem, like I've said, is the effort they looked to be putting into making this movie PG-13. They threw profanity in there like someone who's cussing for the first time. Pointless and rude, it was unnecessary. It also wasn't funny. The profanity or most of the jokes. The younger people in the audience giggled a couple more times than we did, but not much. There's not much organization to Fun Size. It's sloppy and choppy. The good news is that first time director Josh Schwartz has plenty of room to improve, as does Max Werner, the writer.

As poorly done as Fun Size is and its PG-13 rating, I'm not sure it has an audience regardless the age. Hopefully, if Nickelodeon keeps trying to make teen focused movies, they can do better than this.

Beware the one-armed Spiderman kid. He will pilfer your candy, he will seduce your hot girlfriend, and he will steal your heart. Also, 20 seconds on a cold day is fair offer.

Yet another example of Hollywood telling the consumer what we are supposed to like. Fun Size's target audience here is the young tween/teen crowd which actually makes the film rather distressing as so much of it isn't appropriate for a young set of impressionable eyes. While it isn't crude or vulgar like so many other "night-out-on-the-town" comedies, so many of the situations its lead character Wren (Victoria Justice of Nickelodeon's Victorious) finds herself in aren't funny and are actually downright dangerous. Sending her alone to the house of an alcoholic 30-something mystery man (Johnny Knoxville) is not smart ... much like this movie. Wren finds herself babysitting her younger brother on Halloween (in a town in which 100% of its citizens wear costumes) when her recently widowed mother (Chelsea Handler) informs her that she would be attending a party on her own with her much-younger boyfriend. As Wren and her best friend April (Jane Levy) are somewhat selfish and self-absorbed, they "lose" the tyke while they long for the popular boy in their high school who is also throwing his annual Halloween party. Lame event after lame event occurs ... and there are few laughs although I will admit I found one scene rather inspired that features a heavily populated street and a Josh Groban song. Other than that ... yawn and "I don't think so!" So much of this film is NOT smart and/or wise -- a mistakenly loaded gun (well, a musket) in the hands of an unsuspecting teenager is NEVER funny. Fun Size ... not so much.

Sure, seeing a giant animatronic chicken sodomize a Volvo is funny, and there were a few other amusing bits, but on the whole it was a tad shy of so-so. That is a pity, because I enjoyed the series CHUCK (also a Josh Schwartz creation), and it was filmed in my home town of Cleveland, which I also very much enjoy. It has all the elements of a great teen comedy, but it never comes together for some reason.

Not nearly as bad as I expected, but still pretty bad. Some of the humor is all right, although most of it falls flat. Tons of sexual humor! Caught me by surprise for a movie aimed for tweens.

Nick & Nora meets Adventures in Babysitting on Halloween set in Cleveland. A surprising delight for what it was.

I'm only rating this movie to give it a bad rating. Horrible. Totally inappropriate for younger children (don't let the title fool you). In theatres 10/26.

found Fun Size very enjoyable to watch, it was super funny. it's actulley one of my favortie non R Rated comedies of 2012. Victoria Justice is super talented, hope Victoria gets more film roles in the future, she's such a great actress.

The surprise of the year

i wanted the child in this movie to get molested and die bleeding from his asshole
fuck you movie

This is a extremely awful film. I am a fan of teen comedies like "Easy A" and "Nick and Norah's infinite playlist", but this is clearly saying Nickelodeon is trying to make a risquà (C) movie so it doesn't lose it's fanbase. The jokes are crude and unfunny, and the screenplay is awful. Near the end of the film it tries to add some emotion, but it comes off as ineffective. If you want a good movie like this go watch "Superbad", it is a much better film.

This movie wasn't that FUN watching, it had a few good moments but it all didn't make sense in my opinion. Only Victoria Justice was was fun to watch!

its packs laughs and emotional moments fun size is a good treat for the family .

spends a little bit too much time on childish jokes when it is a PG-13 movie.

Some parts were boring,but it's still in fun size!

Although being too crude and bizarre to younger audiences, Fun Size is a favorable option to watch with friends. But beware of young kids!!!