Horrid Henry finds himself doing things he never ever thought he'd do, and then some.
Nick Moore’s 3D film is perfectly pleasant once it gets the fart jokes out of its system, but the trouble with this horrid Henry is that he’s not nearly horrid enough.
Shrill, over-eager and frankly disappointing.
A wasted opportunity.
Not big and not clever.
Young fans will be tickled by the pantomime-style performances.
A cheap, cheerless and laugh-free disaster zone with a woeful script and performances you'd expect to see in a school play. Horrid.
Kids will enjoy the gobby tween attitude and energy, but the paper-thin plot and extraneous 3D antics don’t provide the solid laughs of, say, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid.
Do you get the picture? If not, keep it that way.
The one bright note is Anjelica Huston as Miss Battleaxe.
The results of a PR brainstorming inquiry into What Kids Like, rather than a coherent story.
Broad, noisy.
Parents who draw the short straw might be stuck with Horrid Henry: The Movie, a live-action travesty.
Here comes trouble: the making of Horrid Henry
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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