How to Eat Fried Worms

It's actually kind of disgusting and gross, and I'm sure that's the point, but I don't see the entertainment value in watching a kid eat one worm after another, after another, after another.

This is a story that could have gone way too far in the direction of the touching tale illustrating how kids overcome their fear of being ridiculed -- but instead maintains a buoyant irreverence.

Worms has its share of kid-friendly gross-outs but is actually a sweet-natured look at standing up to bullies.

Take the kids to see How to Eat Fried Worms, but hold off on forking over the usual princely sum at the concession stand.

It's a pleasant and well-intentioned end of summer diversion that doesn't possess the imagination-stoking qualities of a premier children's movie.

A blandly inoffensive 'After School Special'-type comedy based on a perennially popular children's book.

Properly paced and approximately just over 90 minutes long, parents will be delighted to know that they might enjoy the film as much as their children.

Screenwriter/director Bob Dolman has very much captured the spirit and innocence of the book.

A gross-out movie with a sweet story.