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July 30, 2010
At the Movies: Zaniness rules in 'Ramona and Beezus'
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic
AP Movie Critic
Little kids and tweens — girls, specifically — will probably eat up “Ramona and Beezus,” or at least be suitably amused by it.
They won't be troubled with things like a lack of plot or narrative momentum. It won't bother them that a character's hair gets awkwardly hacked up after a battle with peanut butter, then appears magically restored to its original length soon afterward. They won't think twice about the fact that a backyard is covered with gaping, muddy holes after a massive water fight and pipe explosion, then is miraculously landscaped to perfection in a day.
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