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Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002)
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Reviews Counted:76
Fresh:23
Rotten:53
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Bland, unoriginal, and lacking the wit of the TV series, Hey Arnold is a 30 min cartoon stretched beyond its running time.
Theatrical Release:Jun 28, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $13,590,494
Synopsis: The popular Nickelodeon cartoon HEY ARNOLD! gets its big screen animation debut with this feature, directed by Tuck Tucker. The plot finds the kid with the "football-shaped head" (Arnold, voiced by... [More]
Starring: Spencer Klein, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Lloyd, Jamil Smith
Director: Tuck Tucker
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Reviews for Hey Arnold! The Movie
Pic has lots of charm, and parents in attendance won't feel too bored or alienated by its goings-on, while kids will lap it up.
05/20/08
Top CriticThe simplistic drawing is closer to Peanuts than The Lion King, and the dialogue is strangely anachronistic.
05/20/08
Top CriticArnold has his place on the small screen, but here his attempts to save his neighbourhood from corporate takeover seem overextended.
12/30/06
The coloured pencil tones and quirky-looking characters are likeable, and the plot cuts the sentimentalism with sarky wit and minimum schmaltz.
02/09/06
If this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards, more power to it.
05/24/03
Hey Arnold is a film that kids and adults will enjoy.
05/13/03
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03/07/03
...This film really has no business in theatres.
02/08/03
Arnold's jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces.
01/16/03
Amiable and good-natured stuff for younger kids, I suppose, but nothing to get hugely excited about.
01/06/03
Another solid addition to the Nickelodeon cinema canon.
12/24/02
The charm of Hey Arnold lies in its wacky characters who delight by their off-beat kooky humour in this David and Goliath story about saving the neighbourhood.
12/08/02
Die-hard fans will love it, but, despite being mildly diverting and inoffensive, nothing special leaps off the screen.
12/08/02
There is nothing terribly wrong with Hey Arnold!, but neither is there anything special enough to set it apart from what its fans see on TV all the time.
10/15/02
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09/20/02
It's an unspectacular, unexciting movie, to be sure. But what's relevant is whether it will entertain kids. Will it? I don't know; I'm not one.
09/18/02
Inoffensive and sporadically funny, its chief charm is Arnold's ridiculous noggin, and that's not saying much.
09/15/02
A dull and plodding cartoon with barely enough story for a half-hour episode of the TV series.
08/01/02
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