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58
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Son of Rambow
Paramount Vantage
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some violence and reckless behavior
Starring
Bill Milner,
Will Poulter,
Jules Sitruk,
Jessica Stevenson,
Neil Dudgeon,
Anna Wing,
Ed Westwick,
and
Eric Sykes
Son of Rambow is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes, and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. The story takes place in 1980s Britain, where young Will Proudfoot is raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden. When Will encounters his first movie, a pirated copy of Rambo: First Blood, his imagination is blown wide open. Now, Will sets out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical school bully, Lee Carter, to make their own action epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, not to mention equally elaborate schemes for creating a movie of total commitment and nonstop thrills while hiding out from The Brethren. When school popularity finally descends on Will and Lee in the form of, oui, the supercool French exchange student, Didier Revol, their remarkable new friendship and precious film are pushed, quite literally, to the breaking point. (Paramount Classics/Vantage)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Garth Jennings
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Garth Jennings
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: May 2, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
96 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Perhaps the most ingeniously imaginative element in Son of Rambow, a film exploding with imagination (some of it scrawled directly over the film in animated expressions of Will's private world), is its very conceit.
89
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Funny and sweet and guaranteed to flood you with good feeling.
88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
In many ways, Son of Rambow plays like a pint-size, even cheekier version of the recent Michel Gondry film "Be Kind Rewind." Both are stories about people making movies not because it's their job but because doing so brings a vast sense of play into their lives.
83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Watching skinny-armed little Will pretend to be the spawn of Sly Stallone in a series of botched feats of derring-do is a treat, as is much of this film.
80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Jennings's film, with its missing fathers, sometimes threatens to become cloying, but it's almost always righted by a healthy dose of slapstick or the spectacle of little kids posing as muscle-bound killers.
80
Film Threat
Jamie Tipps
This year’s diamond in the rough, a small movie that is big in heart and promises to be big at the box office.
75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A quirky charmer.
75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Don't be put off by the title. This is no sequel, but a surprisingly charming British comedy that is only tangentially associated with "Rambo."
75
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
A quirk-heavy comedy that tonally reads almost exactly like "Millions," as executed by amateur actors having the time of their lives.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
As is the case with many English comedies, some of the film's slang is hard to understand. But Jennings' sprightly films proves that although England and America are countries divided by the same language, they are united by slapstick comedy.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
Few movies have captured the intoxicating effect of pop culture on kids better than Son of Rambow.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A gentle story that involves a great deal of violence, but mostly the violence is muted and dreamy, like a confrontation with a fearsome scarecrow that looks horrifying but is obviously not real --- or real enough, but not alive.
75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
For much of its frolicsome, rambling running-time, Son of Rambow is like a guarana-spiked soft drink: It goes down easy and delivers a kick.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The film is filled with scenes about scrappy, cut-and-paste filmmaking, and the movie-within-a-movie that drives the plot also ends up as the centerpiece of the hugely affecting final scenes.
70
Slate
Dana Stevens
Son of Rambow bristles with the anarchic energy of late childhood and a genuine respect for the life-changing power of movies--even (or especially) the schlocky ones.
70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A crowd-pleasing combination of buoyant spirit and occasionally dark humor.
70
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A likable, lightly sticky valentine to childhood, the 1980s and the dawning of movie love, Son of Rambow was written and directed by Garth Jennings and produced by Nick Goldsmith, the duo behind the underappreciated fantasy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
70
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
At its most likable, Son of Rambow evokes the rush of discovery that turns budding cinephiles into lifers--that delight in finding a film that seems to express or coalesce some inchoate yearning, including a yen to share.
67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
My only regret is that the film could not somehow take a leap forward to 1988. I would love to have seen what Lee and Will could do with "Die Hard."
63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The resulting tale of friendship and family touches plenty of crowd-pleasing buttons but comes across as more than a little derivative.
60
Variety
Robert Koehler
A sweetly raucous adventure. Widely quoted comparisons to "Billy Elliot" and Tim Burton overstate the case for what is really a modestly eccentric entertainment.
60
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Luckily, Son of Rambow, a comedy that's part kid-buddy flick, part valentine to filmmaking - and full of heart - has both.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The team who made "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" display plenty of whirligig energy, if not much control or lightness of touch.
58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The shooting of the movie-within-a-movie offers the brightest moments in Son Of Rambow, a testament to the innocence of the boys' creative impulse and the sheer unlikely pleasure of their friendship.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
A hodgepodge of popular kids' elements crammed into a mishmash of a movie.
50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
An '80s coming-of-age comedy with more energy than ideas.
50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The super-hip style is groovy but doesn't mask the fact that Son of Rambow doesn't really go anywhere special or say anything much. For a film about falling in love with the movies, its insights on them are next to nil.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
If it happens to hit you right - that is, if you happen to catch its wavelength of tear-and-a-smile whimsicality - the movie will speak to you.
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