An 11-year-old boy who believes that he is the best detective in town runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,500-pound polar bear.... (Full plot summary below)
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An 11-year-old boy who believes that he is the best detective in town runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,500-pound polar bear.
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| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeIf you're reading this review because you're wondering what to cue up on your Disney+ subscription, Timmy Failure is the best of the new service's original programs by a wide margin. (Take that, you one-note Baby Yoda.) |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOne of those quick-witted films in which if one character or plot thread doesn’t work for you, all you have to do is wait a minute for another. |
| Consequence of SoundClint WorthingtonThink of Timmy Failure like a food truck: the best ones do one or two things really well, and commit to just doing those things. With McCarthy et al., Timmy Failure‘s virtues are an expertly-delivered dry wit that works for kids and adults alike, and a series of adorable performances, from Fegley and the rest of the kids to the all-too-game adults. |
| Screen RantSandy SchaeferIt walks the fine line between being too whimsical and too dramatic, yet maintains that delicate balancing act over the course of its entire runtime. |
| SlashfilmRafael MotamayorTom McCarthy gives us a film that serves for a fun family movie night, complete with important lessons, deadpan humor, and, well, a polar bear. |
| EmpireJames DyerA frothy fantasy about a boy and his bear that makes up for in style what it lacks in substance. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustThe movie leans too heavily on quirk to express character and we are left as annoyed at Timmy’s antics as the adults in his life or the kids in his class (save the one girl who finds him “fascinating”). |
| The New York TimesKyle TurnerThere isn’t enough in the way of good jokes or clever references to investigators of yore to make the film appealing, and the flatness of Timmy’s delivery, which is supposed to scan as deadpan, doesn’t contain enough nuances to make much of the humor land. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeThe quiet humanity of McCarthy’s filmmaking meshes oddly with the material’s zanier demands, finally reaching an anodyne middle ground. |
| User ReviewNavyBeanfrom "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis and Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy comes the funniest film I've seen in years. Kids will love it and adults might like it even more. Great performances abound and the script is tighter than my Uncle Phil at a Quinceañera. |
