Properly paced and approximately just over 90 minutes long, parents will be delighted to know that they might enjoy the film as much as their children.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 21, 2020

Screenwriter/director Bob Dolman has very much captured the spirit and innocence of the book.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

A gross-out movie with a sweet story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

[The actors are] all believably mischievous--and, when the need arises, they're also convincingly courageous in taking a moral stand.

| Mar 1, 2007

With its universal themes about fitting in, How To Eat Fried Worms is an endearing family film guaranteed to provide a wriggling good time. While the premise has a certain gross-out factor which will delight eleven year old boys, the script is clever, and

| Mar 1, 2007

not particularly original or effective

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 2, 2006

...Isn't about or for anyone past puberty.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 16, 2006

Of course, the adults don't matter much compared with the middle-school version of the Crips, and the young cast is enjoyable indeed.

| Sep 2, 2006

"How to Eat Fried Worms" is a tasty little treat for grade-school kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Throughout this fifth-grade Fear Factor, there are scattered lessons on the ills of bullying, the benefit of being true to yourself, the joy of true friendship. But really, what boy is going to remember a moral when there's an exploding worm?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 31, 2006

This is a movie for kids in the 8-12 range who see it as something that reflects their own lives. You may not care about How to Eat Fried Worms, but your kids will.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2006

Yes, the movie can be outstandingly irritating. But it's also a lot of fun, with keen instincts on kids' love for the gross-out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2006

One of the most amateurish essays in excruciating tedium I've encountered in a year that's hardly lacked for tedium.

| Original Score: .5/5 | Aug 30, 2006

...The direction is lackluster, the child actors - with the exception of Eisenberg - are pretty dismal, and the whole thing is about 15 minutes too long.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2006

The lessons about bullying and standing up for yourself aren't forced too strongly, giving How to Eat Fried Worms the same appeal as the best Little Rascals shorts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2006

It's actually kind of disgusting and gross, and I'm sure that's the point, but I don't see the entertainment value in watching a kid eat one worm after another, after another, after another.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2006

bears all the hallmarks of a low-grade kiddie matinee, including... cardboard characters and several incidents in which people scream and run around for no apparent reason, except possibly to keep the audience from dozing off.

| Aug 28, 2006

Some adults may not enjoy 'How To Eat Fried Worms.' But that doesn't matter: this one is strictly for the kids -- who will no doubt eat it up.

| Aug 26, 2006

This is a story that could have gone way too far in the direction of the touching tale illustrating how kids overcome their fear of being ridiculed -- but instead maintains a buoyant irreverence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2006