50
A hodgepodge of popular kids' elements crammed into a mishmash of a movie.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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."
63
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
The resulting tale of friendship and family touches plenty of crowd-pleasing buttons but comes across as more than a little derivative.
58
Entertainment Weekly by 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.
75
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
A quirky charmer.
70
The New York Times by 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."
60
A sweetly raucous adventure. Widely quoted comparisons to "Billy Elliot" and Tim Burton overstate the case for what is really a modestly eccentric entertainment.
58
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.