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Jennings is clearly having a wonderful time recreating the fantasies of his youth, but sometimes his perspective get a little too inbred, and the picture suffers for it.
We cringe and laugh at -- and are ultimately moved by -- their clumsiness and innocence. And it endears us to the Rambo films in ways we never could have anticipated.
Son of Rambow is an inventive and amusing coming-of-age movie that deftly entwines elements of farce and fantasy, rebelliousness and sentiment, while paying seriously funny tribute to the transcendent power of art.
These two boys have, along with writer-director Garth Jennings, turned a coming-of-age story into a treatise on both the fragility of artistic vision and the danger of popular opinion.
After the movie, I imagined its writer-director, Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) being more than a little like Will, and the movie uncannily similar to one of Will's comic epics.
Sweet and sentimental, a bit racy to be a kids' film, a bit tame as grown-up entertainment, Son of Rambow is still a magical romp about childhood discovery and the birth of a lifelong love of the movies.
Rambunctious UK boys remake First Blood.
Funnier than anything in this vaguely dark comedy is the thought of [Sly] Stallone sitting through it.
(...) Una mezcla de aventuras inocentes, historia de maduración y amistad, y comedia bizarra con mucho de nostalgia por aquellas travesuras de cuando éramos chicos.
Crammed tight with every kid-pic cliche you can imagine.
It's a fun idea, but quite awkwardly staged and, in the end, not particularly engaging.
A feel-good family flick that doesn't pander to the younger members of the equation.
This is a winner, a film to which you can safely take your kids and enjoy yourself.
Waffles between heart-on-its-sleeve candor and winking self-awareness.
Though the film is primarily designed to appeal to viewers in the early-teen demographic, a maturity and intelligence is at work here that will connect with many adults also.
The script is not so much written as assembled, anecdote by anecdote. As a result, you never quite settle in.
It's a mildly startling choice of subject matter, but Jennings takes for granted that even the most innocent cineastes have their sadistic side.
This quite charming film does have a strangeness about it; you feel that not all the pieces fit comfortably together.
I was not so engaged as to be moved . . . and felt impatient at the lack of dramatic pace
It may not all work but Son of Rambow is a totally original and really sweet film with an ultra soft heart
In every frame of Son of Rambow you can see the writer-director trying to create something sweet, gentle, humorous, and uplifting, and not quite succeeding.
Its heart is surely in the right place. Yet so much of it just doesn't work...that it's hard to get very excited about it.
Son Of Rambow is an odd hybrid beast - a film about kids, for adults, that kids will enjoy, too - and so Optimum's DVD package has been sensibly designed to cater for both markets.
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