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Leave it to Beaver (1997)

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Reviews Counted:27

Fresh:5

Rotten:22

Average Rating:4/10

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: The juvenile miscreant of TV's golden era makes his jump to the big screen intact, along with too-perfect big brother Wally, scheming Eddie Haskell, sage dad Ward, and cookie-baking mom June. Minor... The juvenile miscreant of TV's golden era makes his jump to the big screen intact, along with too-perfect big brother Wally, scheming Eddie Haskell, sage dad Ward, and cookie-baking mom June. Minor touches bring the Cleavers into the 1990s (a racially diverse classroom, personal computers), but the Beav still just makes a mess of things despite his best intentions. Here, he joins the football team to please Dad (and get a brand new bike), leading to humiliation and slapstick chaos. [More]

Starring: Cameron Finley, Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Erik von Detten

Starring: Cameron Finley, Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Erik von Detten, Adam Zolotin, Barbara Billingsley, Ken Osmond, Frank Bank, Erika Christensen, Alan Rachins, E.J. De La Pena, Justin Restivo, Geoffrey Pierson, Grace Phillips

Director: Andy Cadiff

Director: Andy Cadiff
Screenwriter: Lon Diamond, Brian Levant
Composer: Randy Edelman
Producer: Robert Simonds

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Reviews for Leave it to Beaver

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Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/02
Boxoffice Magazine

No review available.

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06/19/04
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

I wouldn't say this movie is actually harmful, but skipping it is probably the wisest policy.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
01/01/00
Barbara Shulgasser
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

It doesn't quite work, but some of Leave it to Beaver is a gentle little time-waster that will probably please young children and evoke some nostalgia in their parents . . . er, grandparents.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

This. Is. Just. Bad.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
07/17/03
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Turner is delightful

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03/04/04
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

Leave It to Beaver just stumbles about in a bland, irony-deprived suburbia that denies the movie any juice or bite and renders the Cleaver family even duller than it was.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

No review available.

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08/04/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

No review available.

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07/10/04
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver's new movie.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Why? That's the question foremost in my mind when I consider this latest motion picture retread of a defunct television series. Why was this movie made in the first place?

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

No review available.

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10/01/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Fuzzily conceived and blandly executed.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/19/08
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
Variety
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Leave It to Beaver is the sort of movie that could be described as good clean fun if it happened to be good or fun.

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01/01/00
Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Van Gelder
New York Times
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The Cleavers have come to represent the stereotype of the white-bread family.This reverent '90s remake doesn't do much to challenge it.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
04/12/02
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail

[The] dead-on imitations of some of the characters from the television series created by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly will seem pointlessly stylized to viewers unfamiliar with the old sitcom.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
05/19/08
Lisa Alspector
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader

All but the most easily pleased kids will be bored as can be, and anyone who has fond memories of TV's Leave It to Beaver would probably rather not besmirch them.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
05/19/08
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The result is depressingly halfhearted.

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01/01/00
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today

No review available.

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03/29/04
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat

This Leave it to Beaver is unabashedly 90s in a fairly depressing way: it takes paternal incompetence as a given.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw
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