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Ramona and Beezus

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Family/Kids
Written by:
Laurie Craig
Nick Pustay
Directed by: Elizabeth Allen
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 23, 2010
Running Time: 104 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: G for General Audiences
Starring Selena Gomez, Joey King, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Duhamel, and Sandra Oh
Ramona's vivid imagination, boundless energy, and accident-prone antics keep everyone she meets on their toes. But her irrepressible sense of fun, adventure and mischief come in handy when she puts her mind to helping save her family’s home. (20th Century Fox)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Refreshingly anti-princess and sweet without degrading into sugary, Ramona and Beezus animates Ramona's frequent flights of fancy with DIY-like sequences that literalize, quite charmingly, how a kid colors the world.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Katie Hewitt
Corbett (of Sex and the City fame) is oddly cast, but still a lovable, if dorky, dad, capable of saving the day.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Newcomer Joey King is funny and adorable as daydreaming 9-year-old Ramona Quimby.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This is a featherweight G-rated comedy of no consequence, except undoubtedly to kids about Ramona's age.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The overall tone of the film is sunny, with Ramona and Beezus resiliently turning life's lemons into lemonade.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Dan Kois
Knits together scenes and themes from all eight of Cleary's Ramona Quimby novels into a sweet and funny, if slightly overlong, portrait of life on a modern-day Klickitat Street.
Read Full Review >Boxoffice Magazine Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
While it isn't the only adaptation to give flesh (or ink) to Cleary's indomitable misfit, it's the most accessible retelling to date.
Read Full Review >Time Mary Pols
A gentle, charming movie and really a parent's dream: a kid's movie that doesn't involve action sequences or explosions. Yet you wish the filmmakers had adhered to Mr. Quimby's no-nonsense point of view and found a way to make this family slightly less squeaky-clean.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Glenn Whipp
Director Elizabeth Allen coaxes fine performances from her cast young and old, stumbling only when relying too heavily on musical cues (Katrina & the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine" needs to be permanently retired) and in the film's awkward CGI flights of imaginative fancy. Other than that, the movie is, to quote its young heroine, "terrifical."
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Ramona And Beezus has the undeniably nice, pleasantly uninspired feel of film designed to kill time with the kids on a rainy weekend.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
On the other hand, this proud graduate of the School of Cleary Classics wishes that, like the young heroine herself, Ramona and Beezus dared more often to color outside the lines.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
For the record: Josh Duhamel brings some welcome exuberance to the role of the goofball suitor, Hobart. Like Oh, he's fun to watch. This is something never to be underestimated
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Ramona and Beezus are undeniably cute, and the movie that bears their names tries to inject some timeliness, but what many of us will walk away from this movie thinking about are the hot father figures.
Read Full Review >Movieline Michelle Orange
Straining for a timeless, family-friendly tone, Allen winds up with something closer to an unironically -- i.e. absurdly -- wholesome rehash of "Leave it to Beaver."
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
It’s so sentimental and sweet that you can almost forgive the kids’ comedy Ramona and Beezus for not being nearly funny enough.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
While its cast delivers uniformly breezy performances, most everything else about Ramona's move to the multiplex feels unremarkable.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
It's not the personal, distinctive portrait of misfit girlhood it could have been.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
For the grown-ups there are sweet, sincere performances by Ginnifer Goodwin, Sandra Oh, and, as Ramona's endlessly game father, the likable John Corbett, relieved for once of his drippy rom-com duties.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Janice Page
Ramona and Beezus the movie, should not be confused with “Beezus and Ramona’’ the book.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
King is good enough that you can't help but root for her. But frankly, I can't imagine paying full ticket price plus concessions for that privilege.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
Another innocuous film about another unusual girl.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Mike Hale
Parents may also be happy to see a movie for children that doesn’t involve wizards, vampires or action figures that can be bought in the food court. They should be warned, though, that the price of contemporary realism is a story that includes layoffs, bickering and unpaid bills.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It won't change anyone's world, but it'll keep kids happy - and cool - for a couple of hours.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
So friction-free that it slips from memory before the credits fade.
Read Full Review >NPR Ian Buckwalter
The film is too frenetically paced and clean to quite recreate the magic of their source material, but it does often face these issues in the same admirably head-on fashion.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Eric Hynes
A tepid rom-com, replete with a nostalgic Bangles tune.
Read Full Review >Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
True enough, she's trying to do the right thing. But she never quite gets there. And that gets old, making "Ramona" wear out its welcome long before it should have.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.7 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Review er gave it a0:
Selina Gomez cannot act AT ALL! So why even cast her in films?
Mary L. gave it a10:
I love it!! Gomez,Corbett, King, Duhammel all cast sweet and funny real family movie so good.
Chad S. gave it a6:
Since "Ramona and Beezus" blandly stays within the parameters of a G rating, it's only inevitable that the contemporization of the 1955 young adult novel by Beverly Cleary would dislocate the sisters from their modern-day setting, especially Beezus(Selena Gomez), a girl out of time whose innocence wouldn't be so distracting had the film not saddled the Quimby clan with a real world problem. The recession and the fallout resulting from dad(John Corbett) being laid off from his job(marital squabbles, home foreclosures) entails that the characters act accordingly to their period. When the Cleary novel was published, boys and girls in America went steady; they hung out at malt shops and drive-in theaters, and never broached the subject of sex. That's the world Beezus belongs to; the filmic world of mythical teenagers which Peter Bogdonavich's "The Last Picture Show"(and more recently Gary Ross' "Pleasentville") put an end to, in which "Ramona and Beezus" revives, through the reactionary quality of the teenaged girl's chasteness. To a great extent, generative naivety was largely a filmic reality(which the Kinsey Reports of 1947 & 1953 proved), a product of the church's then-monolithic influence on people's lives(see Giesuppe Tornatore's "Cinema Paradiso"). Presented as a secular film, "Ramona and Beezus" beats a Christian heart. To see such unworldliness engendered in attractive, seemingly well-rounded adolescents, where a good friend flirts uncertainly with Beezus(before a lemonade stand, no less) like a nine-year-old boy stricken with puppy love, can't help but distract the moviegoer. Maybe Beezus is supposed to be plain-looking; maybe that would have lessened the estrangement. A less beautiful actress can get away with a line like, "Who could ever love a girl named Beezus?" but not Gomez. The declaration comes amidst the older sister's exasperation with having a sibling like Ramona(Joey King) who always has to be the center of attention. It's the plaintive cry of an ugly duckling, not a sperm magnet. The name "Beezus" makes Beatrice feel unattractive, a name that the younger Quimbly girl saddled her with. When Ramona chops up a couple of hot dogs for dinner, the seemingly innocuous action suggests a real Ramona and a real Beezus underneath their studio-mandated ciphers, a sisterly dynamic more in line with the Wiener girls from Todd Solondz's "Welcome to the Dollhouse", made obscure by the G rating. When boy and girl finally do kiss, it's the latter who makes the first move, which finally brings "Ramona and Beezus" up-to-date with cultural and societal norms, because, according to Nicolas Cage in Francis Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married", "that's a guy's move."
Ryan Floom gave it a3:
Selena Gomez is beautiful but the movie ain't anything fantastic.
