Sadly Over-hyped

I wanted to but couldn't!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Sometimes as adults, we have stressful days at work, and on occasion as part of the unwind process, I have been known to dig out kids films - often something that one can follow without having to think too hard about what's going on.Horrid Henry: The Movie doesn't require a massive amount of thought process if you know anything at all about the book series - it basically boils down to the lead character being a stereotypical schoolboy - to hate school and girls, and to love anything gross and disgusting with his friends.Not having to think too hard about the film when watching is helpful, because if you did, you'd see a plot so thinly stretched it was in danger of breaking as soon as anybody opened their mouth. The sequence of events becomes more surreal as the film progresses, and as for the 2 Cool 4 School segment... the chain of events in 2 Cool 4 School isn't too far detached from reality but the presenters definitely are.Theo Stevenson plays the main lead of Horrid Henry. Stevenson has clearly thrown his heart and soul into this role (he said in pre-release interviews he loved the books) and gives us a highly spirited and energetic performance while managing to avoid being irritating. The same cannot be said unfortunately for the rest of the kids including, ironically enough, Perfect Peter.Of the adult cast, Anjelica Huston is Henry's teacher, done well here. Richard E. Grant also features as does Mathew Horne (of Bad Education fame and others) and I was pleasantly surprised to see Prunella Scales make a guest appearance as well. Dick & Dom seem to split opinion on everything they do but unfortunately they were both so far beyond irritating in here as their characters that having a hole drilled in my head would have been more pleasurable...A just about watchable film if you switch off your brain prior to viewing and/or need something to unwind with but beyond that if you're not used to kids films this will probably annoy the living daylights out of you. Youngsters and die-hard Horrid Henry fans will probably lap it up.

Yes, a completely awful and ridiculous movie. I mean, fine Horrid Henry itself is ridiculous in a sort of funny way but the movie killed it.It isn't too good for the eye, as well as quite gruesome, but that's just Henry, it was also over-saturated, colors far to bright. I don't know if the colors were to make it seem more cartoon like but it was not good. Some of the acting sucks in the movie, especially Miss Lovely, the actor is a great actress but the acting was just way over the top. Way over the top. The story line is too jumpy, it goes from this to that within minutes, completely confused me.

England's very first Kids 3D film turned out to be Horrid Henry The Movie. The Horrid Henry books became a big success in the UK alone. They created an animated series in 2006 and now they have created a movie in 2011.I am a fan of the Horrid Henry books. I also thought the series wasn't too bad either. Then when the film came out I thought it would be good to go and see it.The characters looked great. But the way the actors performed them was very disappointing. I would call this bad acting. The way they performed each role was very poor. Each one did look like the characters in the books and series, but most of them didn't feel like it was the characters you know in the books. The actual plot was poor as well. It felt like a plot that you would see in an episode of the cartoon series. They could have thought of something much better than what they chose.I would say that there was one actor in this that did fit the part of her character. That person is Anjelica Huston who played the part of Miss Battleaxe. She really did play the part of Miss Battleaxe really well. She was only on for a few scenes and I think she needed to be in this film a bit longer than she was.I would not say this is a family film. I would say this is just for kids younger than 8. It might be more entertaining for them than it is for anyone older. It was very disappointing for me; it was actually an insult to the books. I hate saying stuff like that about movies, but I'm afraid I had to say it.Written By Jamie Foster

This film was alright!I saw this a couple of days ago because my little brother wanted to see it. It was one of the worst films I've ever seen, I mean I'll admit I laughed a couple of times as some bits in the film were quite cleverly made, but over all I was pretty disappointed! I've read nearly all the books and they are are amazing! Then came the T.V show that was pretty good, and then came the film that thoroughly disappointed me! I thought Dick and Dom could have played a better part, but still they were pretty funny. Basically all the other characters (in my opinion) didn't play a very good part. I thought some parts very unrealistic like when Henry threw the water balloon at Margret. Disappointing, but younger children will love it!