20
The principal characters can be reduced to a handful of tics, and the entire story line is immaculately devoid of incidental detail. It's like sitting in a padded cell for about 90 minutes.
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50
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Joe Williams
Despite the oddly literate title, Vincent Wants to Sea never deviates from the predictable bonding-through-misadventure script, and it has little to teach us about the nature and treatment of the traveler's respective maladies.
40
Boxoffice Magazine by John P. McCarthy
Trapped inside the German film Vincent Wants to Sea there's an affecting father-son drama, an amusing road movie, a quirky romantic comedy and a non-patronizing take on mental illness. What we actually get - a homogenized movie-of-the-week set against the Alps and punctuated by anodyne English-language pop songs - brought out the cynic in me.
40
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
What's missing is any of the real-life messiness that might have lifted this material from its creatively tic-ridden confines.
60
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
The picture's quiet performances and occasionally surprising moments take it just far enough off the beaten path to make it more than a transparently formulaic feel-good story.
63
This is a bright, broad, silly, harmless movie whose sweetness is a means to an end.