Unnecessary film take on the classic TV series. Leave it.
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... 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 touches bring the Cleavers into the 1990s (a racially diverse classroom, personal computers), but the Beav still just makes a mess of things despite his best intentions. Here, he joins the football team to please Dad (and get a brand new bike), leading to humiliation and slapstick chaos. [More]
Starring: Cameron Finley, Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Erik von Detten
Starring: Cameron Finley, Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Erik von Detten, Adam Zolotin, Barbara Billingsley, Ken Osmond, Frank Bank, Erika Christensen, Alan Rachins, E.J. De La Pena, Justin Restivo, Geoffrey Pierson, Grace Phillips
Director: Andy Cadiff
Director: Andy Cadiff
Screenwriter: Lon Diamond, Brian Levant
Composer: Randy Edelman
Producer: Robert Simonds
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Reviews for Leave it to Beaver
[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.
All 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.
The Cleavers have come to represent the stereotype of the white-bread family.This reverent '90s remake doesn't do much to challenge it.
I wouldn't say this movie is actually harmful, but skipping it is probably the wisest policy.
It 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.
Leave 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.
Why? 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?
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