Storyline
During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Directors
Cast
Nick Krause, Clint Howard, Luke Benward, Alexander Gould, James Rebhorn, Philip Bolden, Tom Cavanagh, Glori Renee Euwer, Samantha Inoue-Harte, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Andrea Martin, Tom Brainard, Ryan Malgarini, Ty Panitz, David Bewley, Adam Hicks, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Tim Mateer, Austin Rogers, Andrew Gillingham, Blake Garrett, Alexander Agate, Simone White, Jo Ann Farabee, Karen Wacker, Benjamin Bryan, Chloe Chung, Dan Eggleston, Herman Whitney
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Reviews
75
Entertainment Weekly
Happily, after a cartoon opening-credits sequence that overdoes it on the barf, Worms goes light (but not too light) on the gore and the goo.
70
L.A. Weekly
Worms is one of those rare kiddie flicks that successfully adopt a child’s-eye view of the world, where nothing is more important than saving face on the playground and where parents are as distant and clueless as storybook giants.
67
The A.V. Club
There's no great art to Fried Worms' simple, family-friendly style and obvious clichés, but there's a refreshing lack of x-treme attitude, slapstick violence, and all the other things that make most kids' movies feel like they were generated by a marketing committee.
67
The film is genuinely good-natured and kids -- particularly the ones who actually do this sort of stuff to worms -- will enjoy it and may even take the movie's loose morals to heart.
60
The Hollywood Reporter
Boys will be happy at the mild grossness; parents will tolerate anything that entertains their hyperkinetic boys; and sisters will agree with the film's lone girl.
