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.
Everything you'd expect from a crowd-sourced documentary, designed to celebrate its subject, while mostly just validating the aesthetic taste of its backers.
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Bill Goodykoontz
RTArizona RepublicNov 21, 2013
An hour and a half of hero worship, basically. Fine by me.
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Sara Stewart
RTNew York PostNov 15, 2013
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.
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Pat Padua
RTSpectrum CultureAug 31, 2018
Made by fans and about fans ... it still suffers from a doe-eyed bias.