The Kid: Critic Reviews

Never really sparks much insight beyond the implied simplistic homily: 'You're never too old to change.'

Why am I sick to my stomach?

The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations.

This comedy-fantasy about finding one's inner child falls flat on its face.

For all its obviously commercial push, this is a movie of intermittent pleasant surprises.

Insufferably cloying and sickly sweet for anyone with the least intolerance to 'find the inner child' saccharinity.

A lame, misconceived comedy with a shopworn, find-the-child-within-yourself message.

The intriguing idea of The Kid is squandered with a simple-minded story line that never meaningfully scratches the surface of questions most people ask themselves.

So eager to please it ends up falling all over itself, The Kid could have used the more evenhanded touch Wells displayed in directing Guinevere.

Very funny and genuinely insightful family movie.

There's something even more hard-to-take than a cherubic tot trying his or her darndest to be adorable: it's an ugly kid acting annoying.

...boring and slow and unfunny and a waste of Bruce Willis' time.

This is obviously a blowoff role for Willis; apart from a few frantic scenes where he thinks he's crazy, he appears to be reading lines in his sleep.

...revives that "inner child" pop-psychology drivel that was popular for about two months back in 1991. ...a syrupy second act full of painful memories involving sick parents, handicapped dogs (no joke!) and forgotten ambitions.

Si el nio que alguna vez fuimos nos preguntara qu es lo ms importante que hemos aprendido en nuestra vida, qu responderamos?

A compelling movie that challenges us to confront our inner child and incidents in the past which have deeply influenced us.

Boasts a terrific performance from Bruce Willis.

Seldom does one find a film that meets expectations so thoroughly.

A charmless, predictable picture.

Audrey Wells's script and Turteltaub's presentation ring true just often enough to prevent the comedy from descending forever into Cutesy-Wutesy Hell. But nothing seems too shameless for them.

The latest from Disney qualifies as a true family film: Both parents and kids will squirm.

For all its pretensions and a tremendously tear-jerky climax, The Kid does have winning ways and some decent laughs.

It has a balanced mixture of adult sentimentalities and childish comedy that should bring both children and adults into the same movie theater...

More of an adult movie which kids might like, than visa versa.

The movie is only mediocre.