Rotten
[The] dead-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.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Overview
The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio – wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore, better known as 'Beaver'. 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.
Director and cast
- Andy Cadiff Director
- Christopher McDonald as Ward Cleaver
- Janine Turner as June Cleaver
- Cameron Finley as Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver
- Erik von Detten as Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver
- Adam Zolotin as Edward 'Eddie' Haskell Jr.
- Alan Rachins as Fred Rutherford
- Grace Phillips as Miss Landers
- Geoff Pierson Cast
- Erika Christensen Cast
- Ken Osmond Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
22%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Fuzzily conceived and blandly executed.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Rotten
The Cleavers have come to represent the stereotype of the white-bread family.This reverent '90s remake doesn't do much to challenge it.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten
The result is depressingly halfhearted.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Fresh
Credit the makers of Leave It to Beaver for their kindliness.
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
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