Waking Ned Devine Critic Reviews

This one's so much fun, it's worth taking the whole family. Read the full review

Unfolds with such unforced inevitability that absurdity never condescends to sticky adorableness.Read the full review

A roguish and delightful comedy of duplicity that's as entertaining as it is sly. Read the full review

Kirk Jones, who wrote and directed this blithe comedy, has been a prize-winning director of television commercials. And he has the knack of finding rubbery, expressive faces and letting each villager's quirks emerge on cue.Read the full review

The plot is far from intricate, but Waking Ned Devine more than makes up for its narrative simplicity with a uniformly engaging cast of Hibernian oddballs.Read the full review

Bannen and the gawky Kelly, whose screen chemistry is vital to the film's success, make a delightful pair of stumbling shysters, and Jones' script weaves a sizable tapestry of other characters to flesh out the village.Read the full review

Writer-director Kirk Jones III keeps the movie resolutely brisk and light, twisting mildly this way and that but never detouring for long. Read the full review

One of the joys of Waking Ned Devine is in the richness of the local eccentric population.Read the full review

An unabashed excursion into feel good territory.Read the full review