
The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio - wise father Ward, loving mother June, teen-age son Wally and 8-year-old "Beaver" Theodore. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and th... (Full plot summary below)
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The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio - wise father Ward, loving mother June, teen-age son Wally and 8-year-old "Beaver" Theodore. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and that leads to tensions between the friends.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI was surprised to find myself seduced by the film’s simple, sweet story, and amused by the sly indications that the Cleavers don’t live in the 1950s anymore. |
| Miami HeraldChristine DolenLeave It to Beaver is the sort of movie that could be described as good clean fun if it happened to be good or fun. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsSchmalzy and trite, it relies heavily on the goodwill and nostalgia. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloModernized take on '50s TV show, with some bullying. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksIt doesn't quite work, but some of Leave it to Beaver is a gentle little time-waster that will probably please young children and evoke some nostalgia in their parents . . . er, grandparents. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsScott RenshawThis Leave it to Beaver is unabashedly 90s in a fairly depressing way: it takes paternal incompetence as a given. |
| Austin ChronicleRussell SmithSome things never change -- and we think that's good. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonFuzzily conceived and blandly executed, Leave It to Beaver is neither fish nor fowl. Not exactly a straight-faced homage to the classic TV series, but far short of an outright parody, this exceedingly mild comedy plays like the product of a committee that never reached a consensus on which direction to take. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorDead-on imitations of some of the characters from the television series created by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly will seem pointlessly stylized to viewers unfamiliar with the old sitcom. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerWard, I'm worried about the Beaver's new movie. |