The Odd Life of Timothy Green Reviews
HeyUGuys
The Odd Life of Timothy Green, finds Disney at an altogether new low, capped off by a cringeworthy dance sequence that will make you scream for Timothy to crawl back into his magical hole.
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| Original Score: 1/5
SFX Magazine
It looks and sounds like your average family feelgood movie, but everything else about it is just plain odd.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film Journal International
Sappy family drama never overcomes its peculiar fantasy premise.
Schmoes Know
Usually I can get into this movies, I get invested, I want to root for the characters but it took to long to get anywhere in this movie. There wasn't that Disney magic sprinkle you'd think would be in a movie like this.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Schmoes Know
It almost got me, it almost did. The overall storyline had promise, but this film just didn't quite have that magic touch that it could have. I was expecting forrest Gump meets D.A.R.Y.L and instead I got- Who cares with Leaves.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticThe film is schmaltzy and very saccharine, so sweet it'll give you a toothache.
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| Original Score: C+
Kansas City Star
"The Odd Life" is not just odd, it's morbid and morose.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Slant Magazine
Disney draws a big fat bullseye on the fast-growing infertile-couple demographic with this airless misfire.
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| Original Score: 1/4
It's hard to believe that Hedges once wrote some decent light fiction (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, An Ocean in Iowa) before he started making greeting-card movies like Dan in Real Life and this one.
Scotsman
This is wholesome whimsy, but only the very green can fail to spot where the plot is heading after the first leaf drops and the symbolism needs pruning.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
I'm all up for a good mushy movie, but this one is softer in the head than the heart. The screenplay skims over important events or exchanges as if it's describing what happens rather than actually showing it. This film doesn't earn its moments.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Las Vegas Weekly
It's not quite goofy enough to appeal primarily to kids, but it's also too simplistic and underdeveloped to grab most adult viewers.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Paste Magazine
Writer-director Peter Hedges' family fantasy drama is sentimental and slickly produced--as well as thinly plotted and somewhat thematically disquieting.
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| Original Score: 5.5/10
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
An achingly sweet parent-and-child tearjerker that's every bit as precious as its title.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The Sunday Age
As odd as the title suggests, this is a strange and dreadfully overwrought family yarn.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Radio Times
Not so much moving as stomach churning.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Express
A bizarre parable about parenting, the picture is nicely acted and occasionally touching but the lugubrious story is both dull and preposterous.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ScreenCrush
My eyes rolled so many times I probably looked like I was having a stroke.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Times-Picayune
You know that fine line separating "good" weird from just plain off-putting? Today, there are mouse-shaped footprints all over it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
