[The] dead-on imitations of some of the characters from the television series created by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly will seem pointlessly stylized to viewers unfamiliar with the old sitcom.
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05/19/08
Leave it to Beaver (1997)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:5
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The juvenile miscreant of TV's golden era makes his jump to the big screen intact, along with too-perfect big brother Wally, scheming Eddie Haskell, sage dad Ward, and cookie-baking mom June. Minor... [More]
Starring: Cameron Finley, Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Erik von Detten
Director: Andy Cadiff
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Reviews for Leave it to Beaver
Top CriticWhy? That's the question foremost in my mind when I consider this latest motion picture retread of a defunct television series. Why was this movie made in the first place?
01/01/00
Top Critic
The film is disarmingly charming.
01/01/00
Top CriticWard, I'm worried about the Beaver's new movie.
01/01/00
Leave It to Beaver is the sort of movie that could be described as good clean fun if it happened to be good or fun.
01/01/00
Top CriticLeave It to Beaver just stumbles about in a bland, irony-deprived suburbia that denies the movie any juice or bite and renders the Cleaver family even duller than it was.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt doesn't quite work, but some of Leave it to Beaver is a gentle little time-waster that will probably please young children and evoke some nostalgia in their parents . . . er, grandparents.
01/01/00
The Cleavers have come to represent the stereotype of the white-bread family.This reverent '90s remake doesn't do much to challenge it.
04/12/02
Top CriticFuzzily conceived and blandly executed.
05/19/08
Top CriticAll but the most easily pleased kids will be bored as can be, and anyone who has fond memories of TV's Leave It to Beaver would probably rather not besmirch them.
05/19/08
Slight, bouncy and sweet-tempered.
10/15/02
Credit the makers of Leave It to Beaver for their kindliness.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis. Is. Just. Bad.
07/17/03
This Leave it to Beaver is unabashedly 90s in a fairly depressing way: it takes paternal incompetence as a given.
01/01/00
Reasonably charming.
01/01/00
I wouldn't say this movie is actually harmful, but skipping it is probably the wisest policy.
01/01/00
Some things never change -- and we think that’s good.
01/01/00
Schmalzy and trite, it relies heavily on the goodwill and nostalgia.
01/01/00
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