A bright and very silly film with solid, provocative themes that really stick with us.
05/03/08 02:04 AM
Son of Rambow (2008)
77 %
Reviews Counted: 78 Fresh: 60 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Theatrical Release: 04-04-2008
Synopsis:
# SON OF RAMBOW
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A runaway audience smash at the Sundance Film Festival, 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.
It all begins in 1980s Britain, when young... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Will Poulter, Bill Milner, Jules Sitruck, Charlie Thrift, Jessica Stevenson
Reviews
A potentially disposable, tongue-in-cheek First Blood pisstake turns out to be a deeply effective, surprisingly touching tale of family and childhood friendship. If you only see one Rambo movie this year, make sure it’s this one.
04/06/08 12:26 PM
Top Critic You'd have to be a bigger cynic than Richard Dawkins not to have your cockles warmed by this gem.
04/06/08 12:20 PM
Integrates its slapstick genre pastiche into a thoughtful story about peer pressure, neglect and yearning
02/03/07 05:03 AM
Top Critic We cringe and laugh at -- and are ultimately moved by -- their clumsiness and innocence. And it endears us to the Rambo films in ways we never could have anticipated.
05/16/08 01:21 PM
You know the Sundance drill: Eventually, the whole school is caught up in their good-natured artistic high jinks, and all involved learn the heartwarming lesson that there's a place in the world for a group of loners.
05/16/08 12:47 PM
With apologies to Mr. Stallone, no one would ever argue First Blood was an essential part of any healthy childhood. But the ability to make-believe certainly is.
05/16/08 12:35 PM
Son of Rambow is an inventive and amusing coming-of-age movie that deftly entwines elements of farce and fantasy, rebelliousness and sentiment, while paying seriously funny tribute to the transcendent power of art.
05/16/08 12:31 PM
These two boys have, along with writer-director Garth Jennings, turned a coming-of-age story into a treatise on both the fragility of artistic vision and the danger of popular opinion.
05/16/08 12:29 PM
Son of Rambow is half a great movie. At its best, it is a comic epic for half-pints.
05/16/08 12:25 PM
Funny and sweet and guaranteed to flood you with good feeling.
05/16/08 12:20 PM
After the movie, I imagined its writer-director, Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) being more than a little like Will, and the movie uncannily similar to one of Will's comic epics.
05/16/08 12:15 PM
Top Critic Sweet and sentimental, a bit racy to be a kids' film, a bit tame as grown-up entertainment, Son of Rambow is still a magical romp about childhood discovery and the birth of a lifelong love of the movies.
05/14/08 02:13 PM
(Son of Rambow) is definitely a movie out of left field, but it does have some pretty funny laughs and does make you feel really tingly inside.
05/13/08 09:21 PM
Son of Rambow is an adorable schoolboy nostalgia trip, a perfect example of everything independent cinema should be.
05/13/08 03:14 PM
Son of Rambow is filled with small surprises and treasures, a veritable bounty of delight.
05/13/08 12:06 PM
Quirky but curiously irritating British period comedy...tries hard to be different, only to prove that different doesn't necessarily mean better, or even good.
05/11/08 02:14 PM
The most beautiful and tear jerking journey in a child's world of make believe. The child in us interprets Rambo and the film character never looked so good.
05/10/08 05:32 PM
The rapport between the two rogue cineastes is enough to carry both films: the one they're making and the one Jennings is trying to make.
05/09/08 02:36 PM
A heartfelt, feel-good movie that underscores one of the great things about the cinema: Going to the movies is not a passive or solitary experience but one that brings us together, in a group, to try to understand how other people live and behave.
05/09/08 02:35 PM
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