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Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Beave wins again.
Review: I loved this movie, it was funny and cute! I also lived as everyone else has said, erik von detton (wally), he was adorable in the movie. Great 4 kids & adults too. Good for a rainy sunday night.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: LEAVE IT TO BEAVER to make things better.....
Review: I loved this movie. I can watch it over and over again and not get bored of it. It's so funny and entertaining that how could anyone not like LEAVE IT TO BEAVER. It's one of the most cutest movies you'll ever see and based on an old TV show. Erik von Detten is the best (he's so hot!) as Wally Cleaver, Beav's perfect older brother. And the rest of the cast is great, too. I also love Eddie Haskells, who's a cleaver troublemaker. The kid who plays Beav is pretty adorable, too. A cut-clean movie about one perfect family and a son that causes so much trouble he doesn't seem to fit in the family. LEAVE IT TO BEAVER is one adoreable and excellent film with excellent acting from the cast that can be seen over and over again. You won't want to miss this!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!
Review: I really really liked this movie. For starters Beaver was really cute. But then...theres the biggest babe in the world here- Wally (or Eric) He is such a babe and I loved the movie. I liked it better than the t.v show. The only bit I didn't like was when Wally kissed that snobby cow of a girl. FIND SOMEONE ELSE WALLY (Preferably ME!!!) i LOVED Eric Von Detten. WATCH THE MOVIE IF YOU LOVE HIM!!!!! :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I thought Leave it to Beaver was funny!
Review: I saw this movie on the Disney Channel, a week ago and I liked it. I am going to look for it on video and get it. It's one of my favorite movies of 1997. I think it's a fun, entertaining, family film.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A 50's and 60's family are stuck in the 90's.
Review: If you are wondering why I am giving this movie 4 stars, is the characters in this movie, for example, in the movie Eddie Haskell is shorter than he was in the tv show, Theodore Cleaver Aka Beaver's friend Gilbert is white in the tv show but is black in the movie, and more.

As the movie opens, Beaver (Cameron Finley) wants a bike. And his brother Wally Cleaver's (Erik Von Detten) best friend Eddie Haskell (Adam Zolotin) tells him to to something to make his old man proud. Like play football and his dad will buy him the bike and then quit the team after he has it. Beaver does to that. And when Ward Cleaver (Christopher McDonald) gets home, Beaver helps him and Ward thinks Beaver has done something wrong, all Beaver wants is his father's hands free to sign his permisson slip to play football.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Meta-Beav?
Review: It's interesting to compare this film with "The Brady Bunch Movie", another big-screen adaptation of a ubiquitous old TV sitcom that appeared in theaters a year or two earlier.

Both movies take a postmodern approach, self-consciously referencing the period origins of the source material. But whereas "Brady" used this to a comically dichotomous effect (placing the literally-stuck-in-the-'70s clan inside a dysfunctional '90s Los Angeles), "Beaver" attempts a synthesis in which '50s cultural mores and aesthetic values still hold sway in the present day. Thus, we're treated on the one hand to such contemporary accoutrements as home PCs, cell phones, and flat-screen televisions--at one point Ward and a miniskirted(?!) June are seen watching a "Home Improvement" episode--and on the other hand to such iconic '50s paraphernalia as white picket fences, soda shops, pigtailed little girls, teenage guys in letterman sweaters, and women in ever-present pearls and high heels.

While the overall tone of this film is sweetly nostalgic rather than abrasively ironic a la the "Brady" movie, one can't help feeling that at some level we're being winked at; viewed in a certain light, this "Beaver" could almost be taken as a sly satire of Republican family values posturing and '50s fetishism. There's a decidedly Stepfordian quality to much of the film, particularly in Janine Turner's portrayal of June. On the other hand, it's difficult to imagine a "straight" update of the show that wouldn't in some way have sacrificed either plausibility or the spirit of the original.

Nonetheless, on a less critical level this movie works as serviceable family entertainment. Parents, especially those put off by the aforementioned "Brady Bunch" film, will be relieved at "Beaver"'s gentle, kid-friendly quality; and fans of the original will delight in some well-placed cameo appearances.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Meta-Beav?
Review: It's interesting to compare this film with "The Brady Bunch Movie", another big-screen adaptation of a ubiquitous old TV sitcom that appeared in theaters a year or two earlier.

Both movies take a postmodern approach, self-consciously referencing the period origins of the source material. But whereas "Brady" used this to a comically dichotomous effect (placing the literally-stuck-in-the-'70s clan inside a dysfunctional '90s Los Angeles), "Beaver" attempts a synthesis in which '50s cultural mores and aesthetic values still hold sway in the present day. Thus, we're treated on the one hand to such contemporary accoutrements as home PCs, cell phones, and flat-screen televisions--at one point Ward and a miniskirted(?!) June are seen watching a "Home Improvement" episode--and on the other hand to such iconic '50s paraphernalia as white picket fences, soda shops, pigtailed little girls, teenage guys in letterman sweaters, and women in ever-present pearls and high heels.

While the overall tone of this film is sweetly nostalgic rather than abrasively ironic a la the "Brady" movie, one can't help feeling that at some level we're being winked at; viewed in a certain light, this "Beaver" could almost be taken as a sly satire of Republican family values posturing and '50s fetishism. There's a decidedly Stepfordian quality to much of the film, particularly in Janine Turner's portrayal of June. On the other hand, it's difficult to imagine a "straight" update of the show that wouldn't in some way have sacrificed either plausibility or the spirit of the original.

Nonetheless, on a less critical level this movie works as serviceable family entertainment. Parents, especially those put off by the aforementioned "Brady Bunch" film, will be relieved at "Beaver"'s gentle, kid-friendly quality; and fans of the original will delight in some well-placed cameo appearances.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Meta-Beav?
Review: It's interesting to compare this film with "The Brady Bunch Movie", another big-screen adaptation of a ubiquitous old TV sitcom that appeared in theaters a year or two earlier.

Both movies take a postmodern approach, self-consciously referencing the period origins of the source material. But whereas "Brady" used this to a comically dichotomous effect (placing the literally-stuck-in-the-'70s clan inside a dysfunctional '90s Los Angeles), "Beaver" attempts a synthesis in which '50s cultural mores and aesthetic values still hold sway in the present day. Thus, we're treated on the one hand to such contemporary accoutrements as home PCs, cell phones, and flat-screen televisions--at one point Ward and a miniskirted(?!) June are seen watching a "Home Improvement" episode--and on the other hand to such iconic '50s paraphernalia as white picket fences, soda shops, pigtailed little girls, teenage guys in letterman sweaters, and women in ever-present pearls and high heels.

While the overall tone of this film is sweetly nostalgic rather than abrasively ironic a la the "Brady" movie, one can't help feeling that at some level we're being winked at; viewed in a certain light, this "Beaver" could almost be taken as a sly satire of Republican family values posturing and '50s fetishism. There's a decidedly Stepfordian quality to much of the film, particularly in Janine Turner's portrayal of June. On the other hand, it's difficult to imagine a "straight" update of the show that wouldn't in some way have sacrificed either plausibility or the spirit of the original.

Nonetheless, on a less critical level this movie works as serviceable family entertainment. Parents, especially those put off by the aforementioned "Brady Bunch" film, will be relieved at "Beaver"'s gentle, kid-friendly quality; and fans of the original will delight in some well-placed cameo appearances.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Exellent movie, funny, and full of laughs
Review: Leave it to beaver is a humerous exploration into the 1950's television series, full of laughs. The main characters are portrayed by wonderful actors,and actresses. Erik von Detten is a wonderful wally

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Leave it to Beaver
Review: Leave it to Beaver. I think everyone has seen that television show at least once, and I know that I, for one, loved it... even though it was completely unrealistic. But who cares? It was a cute little show.

The movie is the exact same way; don't expect something COMPLETELY lifelike... but DO expect something a bit different from the original show. The Cleavers have been updated... and I think my favorite part was when Mrs. Cleaver told Eddie Haskill off... that was great.

The characters have a great performance, too... Adam Zolotin was a great Eddie Haskill, and Christopher McDonald was the perfect Ward.

And watch out for cameo appearances from a couple of the original stars of the series. Those were great to see.

All in all, if you want to see a movie that makes you think, don't get it. It isn't that kind of a thing... but for a family movie, I don't think that there's a better one.


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