Everyone's Hero: Critic Reviews

Everyone's Hero re-creates Depression-era America with surprisingly agreeable anachronistic panache.

Animated in name only, Everyone's Hero is the uninspired tale of Yankee Irving (Jake T. Austin), a 10-year-old baseball fanatic who finds himself in possession of Babe Ruth's stolen bat ...

Everyone's Hero is a sweet, inspirational movie that doesn't offer any surprises, but entertains youthful audiences in a gentle, almost old-fashioned way.

The movie is a feast of miscalculations.

If it's not in the same league of talking-inanimate-object cartoons as Cars, at least we can say it has heart. And that's always more important than stars.

... amiable ...

This handsomely animated, well-directed and -voiced G-rated film, set in the hope-starved era of the Depression, takes on special poignancy as the last directing project of Christopher Reeve.

It's a shame that Christopher Reeve's final directorial effort could not have been a more fitting, and lasting, tribute.

A likable, good-natured family show -- one that takes a typical boyhood fantasy of improbable sports heroics and inflates it into a cracked cartoon odyssey.

This computer-animated baseball adventure espouses a shopworn moral about persevering against long odds, but there's still plenty to recommend it, including memorable characters, solid storytelling, and accurate period detail.

While this could be a hit with undemanding small fry, choosy adults might prefer to whistle for Lassie.

I can't say Everyone's Hero strikes out -- it might distract little kids for a while -- but the directors needn't bother practicing their home run trots.

... a modestly engaging mix of broad comedy and nostalgic fable, spiked with a few unwelcome sprinklings of gross-out gags.

... a tame CGI cartoon for the simple-minded: the very young, the very old and Yankee fans.

The script is anachronistic and trite ...

... feels more like a 1950s cartoon.

Everyone's Hero is an after-school special stretched to feature-film length.

The cartoon is amiable enough and has bright comic moments.

The movie means well and, like tee ball, it's probably best suited for the littlest kids only.

A bland feel-good flick with a positive message.

Sweet and good-natured, but ultimately it's as unremarkable as its animation.

Old-fashioned, sweet, but ultimately disposable family fare with echoes of better films from Toy Story to The Iron Giant.

misguided and poorly executed

Young boys may be enchanted by the inspirational adventure, but for anyone over the age of nine, Yankee's journey is ultimately a dull one paved with good intentions.