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Critics Consensus: The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet brings its bestselling source material beautifully to life, offering a blend of visual thrills and poignant pathos that help tie the film together despite an occasional surfeit of quirk.
Critic Consensus: The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet brings its bestselling source material beautifully to life, offering a blend of visual thrills and poignant pathos that help tie the film together despite an occasional surfeit of quirk.
All Critics (48) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (11)
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet is the perfect 3D vehicle and Jeunet takes full advantage, offering a feast of amusing visual flourishes suited to the book's playfulness.
The quirky charm, visual wit and melancholy undertow of Reif Larsen's The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet translate joyously to the screen in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spite.
Even at its zippiest ... The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet is infused with a pervasive sense of melancholy and loss, with a family that seems as damaged as they are lovably quirky.
Like cross-breeding a chihuahua with a Jack Russell, the result may be doubly cute, but also doubly annoying.
A challenging film that adults might enjoy but one that is likely to leave younger audiences bewildered.
The Young and Prodigious T.S Spivet tries nobly to incorporate old Hollywood style into a modern 3D extravaganza, but its absence of sincere human emotion means it fails miserably.
The result of this unforgiving artificializing of a culture that's pretty artificial to begin with is what the future will recognize as one of Jeunet's masterpieces.
T.S. Spivet may not convert Jeunet's dissenters, but for those who have admired the auteur's past oeuvre, this is another sumptuous curio.
I simply can't recommend it. Too meandering, too dull; and not even saved by the glorious Helena Bonham Carter.
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet should be counted amongst the best of children's films.
The second English-language feature by Amélie's Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a road movie that has captured its visually striking journey in glorious 3D.
It's the multilayered 3-D wizardry with a retro feel that gives Young and Prodigious a delirious sense of timelessness, all set in a magic-realist world where ghosts and dogs might suddenly speak.
A visually gorgeous fable (even the 3D is amazing) that Jeunet really knew how to make entirely believable, but still it feels like a first draft with structural problems and in need of a better treatment. Besides, Catlett is pretty terrible at times, while only Carter and Davis stand out.
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