An overly long, unwieldy movie.
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04/18/03
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Holes (2003)
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Reviews Counted:133
Fresh:103
Rotten:30
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Faithful to its literary source, this is imaginative, intelligent family entertainment.
Theatrical Release:Apr 18, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $67,325,559
Synopsis: Louis Sachar's acclaimed teen adventure novel comes to dazzling life with this wildly entertaining adaptation. Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf) is an unassuming adolescent whose family has been... [More]
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette
Director: Andrew Davis
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Reviews for Holes
Top CriticRanks as one of the most bizarre disasters in recent movie history.
04/18/03
The film's fidelity to the plot and tone of the book is a credit to [Sachar and Davis].
04/18/03
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04/18/03
Suffers even more than the Harry Potter films from a compulsion to be faithful to the source material, including cramming in a head-spinning assortment of characters and subplots.
04/18/03
Top CriticCredit Davis with caring about preserving the book's fiber. I wish he'd been able to find a style of his own to match.
04/18/03
Top CriticIt's good, but not that good.
04/18/03
[Holes] could've benefited from some judicious editing (at close to two hours, the movie occasionally borders on interminable), because there's far too much going on here.
04/18/03
Wry humor, thrills, redemption, and a convoluted, almost epic plot that’s fun to unravel.
04/18/03
The graceless and restrained result is missing whatever sense of the magical elevated the book.
04/17/03
A clever, ambitious movie with an impressive look.
04/17/03
Though the disparate narrative threads are well integrated the film still lags periodically, but its real liability is on the special effects front.
04/17/03
A movie for everyone in the family to treasure.
04/17/03
It makes passable preteen entertainment but comes off as clunky and heavy-handed in most of the places it should be graceful and enchanting.
04/17/03
The movie pays homage to the book by preserving its potency and building upon its strong foundation. It's hard to imagine a reader who wouldn't approve.
04/17/03
A wayward charmer.
04/17/03
Top CriticOne of the few recent movies I have seen that plunged me into that rare, giddy state of pleasurable confusion, of not knowing what would happen next, which I associate with the reading and moviegoing experiences of my own childhood.
04/17/03
Top CriticThe movie is all over the place, jumping around in time, place and tone.
04/17/03
Top CriticThis movie, if it is as successful as it deserves to be, might just open slapstick-happy moviemakers' eyes to the idea that kids will flock to a story that explores dark issues.
04/17/03
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04/17/03
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