HEY ARNOLD! THE MOVIE
"I am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from TV shows,
but 'Hey Arnold! The Movie' is clever, offbeat and even gritty enough
to overcome my resistance ...the story is also engaging and hip enough
to make it a far easier sit for parents...And it's hard not to like
a hero who takes public transportation to a showdown with the bad
guy." --Lou Lumenick, The New York Post
"Most adults have given up on causes, but when his neighborhood is
threatened to be plowed under by Future Tech Industries, Arnold (voice
of Spencer Klein) must act. He and pal Gerald (Jamil Smith) set out
to stop evil Mr. Scheck from turning their neighborhood into a giant
shopping mall...Arnold & Co.'s clever efforts naturally save the neighborhood.
But the movie feels like a long-form version of the popular Nickelodeon
cartoon series on which it's based, which probably won't bother Arnold
fans." --Claudia Puig, USA Today
"The movie expands on the series' liberal and genial worldview (set
in a funky out-of-time New York neighborhood), pitting Arnold and
his posse as political activists who save the nabe from bulldozing
in the name of heartless corporate conquest-- a plucky bit of 'Cradle
Will Rock' activism smuggled in under the cover of Nickelodeon smiles."
--Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"...the show's supporters will be deprived of the sight that serves
as the regular opener of the television cartoon series--they won't
get to see Arnold and his buddies make their marauding march down
the middle of the street. The director, Tuck Tucker, and the series
creator, Craig Bartlett (who wrote the movie with Steve Viksten),
are determined to make this feel like something else...when Gerald
with his towering flattop is absent, the film seems to be little more
than a bad hair day circa 1985 (the year of the flattop fade), given
Arnold's own wild blond tufts exploding from under his cap. --Elvis
Mitchell, The New York Times
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