neiljones1981
Sometimes as adults, we have stressful days at work, and on occasion as part of the unwind process, I have been known to dig out kids films - often something that one can follow without having to think too hard about what's going on.Horrid Henry: The Movie doesn't require a massive amount of thought process if you know anything at all about the book series - it basically boils down to the lead character being a stereotypical schoolboy - to hate school and girls, and to love anything gross and disgusting with his friends.Not having to think too hard about the film when watching is helpful, because if you did, you'd see a plot so thinly stretched it was in danger of breaking as soon as anybody opened their mouth. The sequence of events becomes more surreal as the film progresses, and as for the 2 Cool 4 School segment... the chain of events in 2 Cool 4 School isn't too far detached from reality but the presenters definitely are.Theo Stevenson plays the main lead of Horrid Henry. Stevenson has clearly thrown his heart and soul into this role (he said in pre-release interviews he loved the books) and gives us a highly spirited and energetic performance while managing to avoid being irritating. The same cannot be said unfortunately for the rest of the kids including, ironically enough, Perfect Peter.Of the adult cast, Anjelica Huston is Henry's teacher, done well here. Richard E. Grant also features as does Mathew Horne (of Bad Education fame and others) and I was pleasantly surprised to see Prunella Scales make a guest appearance as well. Dick & Dom seem to split opinion on everything they do but unfortunately they were both so far beyond irritating in here as their characters that having a hole drilled in my head would have been more pleasurable...A just about watchable film if you switch off your brain prior to viewing and/or need something to unwind with but beyond that if you're not used to kids films this will probably annoy the living daylights out of you. Youngsters and die-hard Horrid Henry fans will probably lap it up.
shand9912
so loads of people were saying it was terrible... -.- it is meant to be abstract and my little five year old brother and 10 year old sister found it fun and to be honest so did i. I LOVE!!! dick and Dom's bit in it... its really creepy and cool and the make up is AMAZING!!!!! As is noel fielding's make up... there are so many big names in this film.Its funny and colorful. I really enjoyed it.Its not my favorite film. But it deserves some credit. Its hard to get children to act and they are all pretty good for there age.I also think it portrays the books very well! Because they are all a little abstractand it kept my brother quite for an hour or two :) I understand some of the people commenting wanted serious acting and emotion.... if u wanted that... why buy a kids film???? :D so i'd recommend this for children 3-10
confidencecharm
As a child, I loved the Horrid Henry books, I would reread them all about twenty times a year. Then I got really excited when I heard about the film.A quick summary: I was praying for Dick and Dom's characters to die in this film, the story is ridiculously far-fetched, some of the subplots serve no purpose, the gross-out humor is not funny but just plain disgusting, and some continuity errors are just unbearable (e.g: guitar playing in the background when Henry isn't playing anything, the hamster emerging from the soup bowl completely clean) and if I were to take out all the unnecessary things in this film, we'd be left with a half hour feature that could easily have been an animated episode.And yes: I'm going to get it on DVD when it reaches the bargain bin.There's one thing that makes this film work: the passion behind it. Each and every actor and actress is in heaven when they get lost in these roles, and everyone was clearly having fun making it. They're obviously not making this film to win any Oscars - it's purely for fun. So if you're looking for a completely daft film to pick on that is still a pleasure to watch at least once, check it out. It definitely falls under the "so-bad-it's-good" category.
Billy Bongo
This film was alright!I saw this a couple of days ago because my little brother wanted to see it. It was one of the worst films I've ever seen, I mean I'll admit I laughed a couple of times as some bits in the film were quite cleverly made, but over all I was pretty disappointed! I've read nearly all the books and they are are amazing! Then came the T.V show that was pretty good, and then came the film that thoroughly disappointed me! I thought Dick and Dom could have played a better part, but still they were pretty funny. Basically all the other characters (in my opinion) didn't play a very good part. I thought some parts very unrealistic like when Henry threw the water balloon at Margret. Disappointing, but younger children will love it!
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