Silly satire of competitive dads has some iffy humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Does better on DVD than it did on the big screen, as long as your expectations aren't too high.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 3, 2006

The cornball humor and aw- shucks demeanor often make the Disney Channel seem edgy by comparison.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2005

Imbecilic, unreasonable and wretchedly unfunny.... The film is 5,580 seconds long, and not one of those seconds is believable.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Apr 18, 2005

A simple pleasure from start to finish.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2005

It's all about these fathers and how crazy they are.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2005

Typical for this type of family-skewing comedy, performances vacillate between engagingly broad and annoyingly overstated.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2005

Heads in predictable directions and illuminates little besides the process of crafting cars to compete in the Scouts' Pinewood Derby.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2005

A cute family feature about the competitive little boy in every dad.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2005

Crammed with charmless characters and/or hammy performances.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2005

The Pinewood Derby is a tradition dating back more than 50 years, but it's doubtful Down and Derby will hang around for more than a week.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2005

[A] decent old-school family film (with cuddly lessons and morals).

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 15, 2005

Too often the movie defies description as a comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2005

Down and Derby has the look and feel of something that might turn up on a cable channel devoted to 'family-friendly' entertainment, where it might find a greater audience.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 15, 2005

Down and Derby is amusing enough to make a bit of money at the box office and become a shelf-stable DVD for years to come.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2005

[The] family-friendly slapstick is pitched at such a manic high... that the results are more exhausting than amusing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 15, 2005

It has moments of fun, but... In racing terms, it limps toward the finish line and comes up short.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 15, 2005

The cartoonish movie might have made for a funny half-hour short or sitcom pilot but runs out of track well before its conclusion.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2005

Like a snow cone with no syrup, Down and Derby leaves us high and dry in the moral-of-the-story department.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 14, 2005