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GreenCine Daily - ”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,” writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. “Like that film, this one involves a snug community of oddballs and outcasts whose eccentricities, pluck and fundamental good cheer have long been durable staples of British screen comedy.”
“Mr Jennings starts out gangbusters, only to turn disappointingly unimaginative,” writes Nicolas Rapold in the New York Sun. “The second half of Son of Rambow has the feel of a hack sequel to the first half, losing a loony-but-credible touch for childhood and friendship in order to go through the motions (quirky though they may be) and wrap things up. Still, on the whole it’s better than most studio comedies.”
“[A]t its most likable, Son of Rambow evokes the rush of discovery that turns budding cinephiles into lifers—that delight in finding a film that seems to express or coalesce some inchoate yearning, including a yen to share,” writes Jim Ridley in the Voice.
“[T]his backward-looking pint-sized Ed Wood often sails by on the charms of its formula - it’s an appealingly rambunctious boy’s adventure in the guise of a paean to the artistic process (not the other way around),” writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE… [Full Story]
