Rotten
Everything you'd expect from a crowd-sourced documentary, designed to celebrate its subject, while mostly just validating the aesthetic taste of its backers.
Peter Debruge, Variety
Dear Mr. Watterson
An Exploration of Calvin & Hobbes
2013 · 1h 29m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Joel Allen Schroeder
Overview
20 years after Calvin and Hobbes stopped appearing in daily newspapers, filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder has set out to explore the reasons behind the comic strip's loyal and devoted following.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An hour and a half of hero worship, basically. Fine by me.
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Rotten
It was one of the greats of the now-nearly-defunct Sunday funnies, no doubt. Unfortunately, there's not much cinematic magic in watching the director reading the strip, or hearing various other enthusiasts talk about how much they loved it.
Sara Stewart, New York Post
Fresh
If you're a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, director Joel Allen Schroeder's documentary Dear Mr. Watterson is more or less pure joy.
Dave McGinn, Globe and Mail
Fresh
If nothing else, it's a pleasant reminder that if you haven't taken those Calvin & Hobbes anthologies off the shelf in a while, maybe it's time to go exploring again.
Ian Buckwalter, NPR
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