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GreenCine Daily - The Telegraph’s Tim Robey finds Son of Rambow to be “a sweet, slight and vaguely disappointing movie…. If it weren’t so unrelaxed and eager to please, this might have pleased a lot more.”
“Word-of-mouth is reportedly building up behind this amiable British film by writer-director Garth Jennings about a couple of moviestruck kids, marooned in the bland 1980s suburbs, who set out to make their own amateur video sequel to Rambo,” notes the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. “I really wanted to like it, and there are some laughs, but the film doesn’t fully earn our sentimental indulgence, and there is a persistent sort of Britfilm lameness, 2-D characterisation and soft-focus comedy.”
“While the script’s whimsical humour recalls Gregory’s Girl, the visual style is very bold, very Rushmore,” writes Ryan Gilbey in the New Statesman. “Just as historians will nod approvingly if the bodices in a period drama have been sewn together with the correct stitching, so anyone who grew up in the 70s and 80s will be oohing and aahing like it’s Bonfire Night during Son of Rambow, marvelling at how the film-makers have got every detail just so.”… [Full Story]
