Annoyingly fourth-hand -- scraped from the shoes of "The Full Monty," mixed with Michael Caine's "Little Voice" hair-smarm and salted with "Billy Elliot's" dandruff.
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A half-klutzy, half-engaging eccentric comedy.
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Pryce is very good, but Very Annie Mary is a bit too eager to please.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Having mined England and Ireland dry, filmmakers are now turning to Wales for their quirkiness quota.
New Times (L.A.) by Gregory Weinkauf
As a whole it's vibrant, witty and richly detailed.
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
Leaks treacle from every pore.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Familiar but winningly funny and good-hearted.
Strong contender for the weirdest movie released this year.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
As it lurches between mush and farce, Very Annie Mary churns up a few genuinely funny bits.
TV Guide Magazine by Steve Simels
The cast is uniformly excellent -- Pryce in simultaneously utterly horrible and a real hoot as the wildly egomaniacal paterfamilias -- but the film itself is merely mildly charming.