The school holidays are upon us, and I think this is probably the family film most likely to appeal to the whole family, and to find itself rewatched in years to come on the streaming services.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Very little kids will get a kick from the narky, farty magic critter voiced by Michael Caine. But that overlong running time will snap all attention spans in two.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Even at a time when new family entertainment will always be gratefully received, it doesn't feel too much to wish for that films for children - sorry, kids - should be built a bit more rigorously than this.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2020

A hard slog at getting up to 110 minutes...

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 8, 2020

Veteran British 온라인카지노추천 director Andy De Emmony... deserves plenty of credit for turning what could have been a mawkish diatribe against modern technology into a knockabout comedy the whole family can enjoy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 24, 2020

The problem boils down to this question of sincerity. Director Anthony de Emmony does not feel the magic of this story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Though the FX segments click nicely, director Andy De Emmony too much time is spent trying to draw laughs from things that are not funny and not enough on things that are, most notably Russell Brand and his acidic wit.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 24, 2020

...a satisfying and substantial entertainment for all ages.

| Original Score: 15/20 | Sep 17, 2020

Sky Cinema's new family adventure seems built to be consumed and quickly forgotten.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2020

An utterly predictable and boring mush of mediocrity ... If you really won't feel complete in life unless you see a movie with a decrepit E.T.-like creature voiced by a cranky-sounding Sir Michael Caine ... then by all means watch Four Kids and It.

| Jul 28, 2020

It's well-shot, with some decent effects work, and even though the editing is somewhat manipulative, the story's fanciful flourishes are enjoyably silly.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 10, 2020

It's all a little old-fashioned, but it's perfectly agreeable.

| Original Score: B | Jul 7, 2020

While it is clear right from the outset that Caine's participation in... Four Kids and It is little more than an easy paycheck gig for him, he proves to be the only real point of interest in this otherwise bland and lackluster story.

| Jul 6, 2020

Michael Caine voices the Psammead very well; his sensible Liverpudlian tones convincingly articulate the movie's oft-repeated moral.

| Jul 2, 2020

Ros and Smash begin to understand how acknowledging they cannot have what they really want makes it possible for them to begin to move forward. That's the real magic.

| Original Score: B | Jul 2, 2020

Make room for Four Kids and It.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 1, 2020

There's a certain level of absurdity you have to accept with Four Kids and It, but once you do that, it's a pleasant-enough diversion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2020

... manages some wholesome charm, yet forces the cuteness as it covers familiar thematic territory.

| Jul 1, 2020

This apparent lack of conviction leaves the pic feeling too trivial in comparison to a host of children's literary classics and too innocuous to make much of an impression as a memorable movie.

| Jun 30, 2020

The kid has it right, and that's one of the problems with the underwhelming family fantasy film Four Kids and It, which is light on the magic and heavy on the dumbness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 30, 2020