Horrid Henry: The Movie Reviews
Total Film
Kids will enjoy the gobby tween attitude and energy, but the paper-thin plot and extraneous 3D antics don't provide the solid laughs of, say, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
There's not much for mums and dads - this doesn't attempt any cute Pixar-style adult-pitched gags - but younger audiences will revel in the mischievous manipulations of a negative role model.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Common Sense Media
Forgettable British kid comedy is pretty horrid indeed.
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| Original Score: 2/5
What Culture
The bogeys and slime are deployed with a wild enthusiasm that doesn't transpire into the diabolically lacking script.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Movie Talk
Filmed in eye-popping cartoony colours and with eye-popping cartoony acting to match... the kids mug enthusiastically in school nativity play fashion amid fidgety, hyper-active camerawork that suggests the director has eaten too many blue Smarties.
Daily Express
It is incredibly noisy, messy, completely exhausting and feels as if it is never going to end.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Observer [UK]
A broad, noisy comedy based on a series of popular books and TV films about a rebellious primary-school boy in revolt against his family, school and all things genteel.
Birmingham Mail
The action is shot in fits and starts, with silly songs trying to camouflage the lack of a serviceable script. School of Rock, it's not.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
It's a cheap, cheerless and laugh-free disaster zone with a woeful script and the sort of performances you'd be disappointed to see in a school play. In a word...horrid!
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| Original Score: 1/5
This is London
Ought to be better than it is.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Independent
Unutterably feeble-minded and unfunny.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Liverpool Echo
Oh dear, oh dear. Rarely has a film title been more fitting than this disappointing cinematic outing based on the mischievous character created by author Francesca Simon.
Daily Mail [UK]
Three decades fewer on the clock would doubtless lighten my perspective, but the slapstick here seems gauche, while the script fails to provide the game young cast with much in the way of character or comedy.
Birmingham Post
I hate to say it, but Hollywood did it better with Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Telegraph
Shrill, over-eager and frankly disappointing.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Radio Times
Not quite Horrid, but this Henry comes close. Accompanying adults may wish they'd opted for triple detention.
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| Original Score: 1/5
ViewLondon
Over-indulgent children's comedy that's let down by a sloppy script, patchy direction and some poor performances, though it does have the occasional moment and its target audience will probably enjoy it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticFilms aimed at families usually plant some jokes to ensure accompanying adults aren't bored witless by an endless stream of goofy gags, but Horrid Henry: The Movie flies defiantly against this trend.
Digital Spy
This is complete agony to sit through and with a lead character as snotty and unlikeable as Henry it's one to steer clear of.
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| Original Score: 1/5
