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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Bringing Up Bobby centers around a mugging performance by Jovovich, who can't ground the film's attempts to tie together sentiments from "Paper Moon" and "Miss Saigon."
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckUnfortunately, the alternately melodramatic and comic Bringing Up Bobby fails to impress, despite a showy turn by Milla Jovovich in a sharp departure from her usual zombie butt-kicking in the Resident Evil series.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJanssen's affectionate, almost-1970s-style view of innocents-at-large may not be polished, but earns points for being from the heart.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisDespite Ms. Janssen's fine taste in music - it's lovely to hear Jorma Kaukonen's "Genesis" on the soundtrack - her film's downfall was ensured by a leading lady who will always be more credible chasing zombies than the American dream.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe movie permanently downshifts to moralizing melodrama and retrograde Stella Dallas–like maternal sacrifice when Bobby has an accidental run-in with real estate magnate Kent (Bill Pullman).
- 30VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyA technically competent but painfully broad dramedy about a larcenous mother-and-son duo in the Midwest. This gender-flipped, latter-day "Paper Moon" lacks that film's judicious restraint, among other things, alternating hick Americana cartoonishness with maudlin appeals to the tear ducts.
- 25Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerJust an extended dramatization of the 1980s anti-drug PSA that memorably cautioned "I learned it by watching you!"