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A fun trip down memory lane with some aaawwww moments and some LOL moments. A good mix between comedy and buddy movie!!

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Posted may 24, 2008 10:40 pm pt

• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  91
  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.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  89
  Funny and sweet and guaranteed to flood you with good feeling.

  by Kimberley Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  88
  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.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  83
  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.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  80
  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.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  80
  This year's diamond in the rough, a small movie that is big in heart and promises to be big at the box office.

  by Jamie Tipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  75
  A quirky charmer.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  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."

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  A quirk-heavy comedy that tonally reads almost exactly like "Millions," as executed by amateur actors having the time of their lives.

  by Tasha Robinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  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.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  75
  Few movies have captured the intoxicating effect of pop culture on kids better than Son of Rambow.

  by Stephen Cole | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  75
  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.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  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.

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  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.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
  70
  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.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »