Unaccompanied Minors Critic Reviews
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Crashes the slapstick of "Home Alone" into the youthful angst of "The Breakfast Club."Read the full review
It's a crowdpleaser -- at least for crowds aged about 6 to 12.Read the full review
Feig does wring out a few fleeting fun/heartfelt moments from the minors, and the movie's Christmas treacle is smoother than "Santa Clause 3's." But anyone old enough to go see this without a parent or guardian will have seen it all before.Read the full review
Not for the faint of heart, the movie is unsettling and startlingly true to life. At least that’s how it seemed to me. To the minors I happened to be accompanying, it seemed to be reasonably good fun.Read the full review
The film is too busy hurling its cast from one labored slapstick setpiece to another to loosen up and allow them to have fun or be spontaneous.Read the full review
A little charm and inventiveness would have gone a long way to tone down some of the picture's more obnoxious impulses.Read the full review
Unaccompanied Minors, a sort of junior league version of "The Breakfast Club," never achieves the universal appeal of John Hughes's 1985 film about youth and authority.Read the full review
A half-baked script by Jacob Meszaros and Mya Stark admittedly gives Feig little to work with. But his young cast is capable of a lot more than is required of them in this so-called comedy.Read the full review
