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Critics Consensus: Please Stand By hits a number of familiar coming-of-age beats, but adds just enough of a Trek-fueled twist to keep things interesting.
Critic Consensus: Please Stand By hits a number of familiar coming-of-age beats, but adds just enough of a Trek-fueled twist to keep things interesting.
All Critics (34) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (13)
Lewin can't quite transcend the inconsistencies and dwindling credibility of the concept or give the material a driving pulse, even with its race-to-the-deadline setup.
You can guess how most of its scenes will play before you even come to them, and it has a circumspect, sanitized quality, as if meant to be shown in group homes without causing undue upset.
Touches the viewer with the subtle emotional wallop of a feather brushing against the heart.
A sensitive character study whose story beats are a little bit overly familiar.
Lewin ... posits this as a whimsical road comedy, but I couldn't help questioning both the logic and the consistency.
Please Stand By deflates into a perfectly watchable but soft parable in which a can-do young American loses a battle, only to win the war of growing up, while the adults in the room confront their own unhelpful rigidities.
... melodramatic contrivances compromise any genuine audience empathy for Wendy or her plight.
Given that this Please Stand By's climax includes a speech about how important self-expression is and how cruel it is to dismiss it, it's difficult to be so critical....
From the start, Ben Lewin's film proves its worth with its quietly attentive and mostly authentic depiction of Wendy's condition, save for a few concessions it necessarily makes to its audience and its ninety-minute running time.
Please Stand By sets you up to fear and cheer for a girl outside her element, and with some suspension of disbelief in its portrayal of autism, is a heart-warming success.
Dakota Fanning stars in a coming-of-age whose greatest freshness lies in the tribute to Star Trek and Spock as instruments to talk about autism. [Full Review in Spanish]
A feel-good indie. (Complete review in Spanish en Reforma newspaper).
Dakota Fanning gets her layup shot with the easy Hollywood trope of mental illness (nearly always Oscar material performances due to sympathy, see Rain Man), and does well as a woman who dreams of submitting her Star Trek script to Paramount Studios. It's a nice story without a lot of waxy yellow buildup, even if predictable.
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