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Solid, feel-good film.
Bill Zwecker
Chicago Sun-Times
Issues like family harmony, justice, righting wrongs and telling the truth never go out of fashion and that comes across strong and clear in this less-than-perfect, but still solid, feel-good film...

Barf scenes standard
Michael Wilmington
Los Angeles Times
If your stomach doesn't churn a bit after hearing the title of the children's movie "How to Eat Fried Worms," the picture itself may finish the job.
Indeed, we watch the film's main character, 11-year-old Billy Forrester (Luke Benward), devour worm after worm — fried, grilled, juiced or raw. In this movie, the barf scenes standard in the usual crude youth comedies aren't gratuitous. They're logical climaxes...

Kids will enjoy the extravagently and hilariously repulsive items
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
This is a delightfully snips and snails and puppy-dog tails-style movie, with kids who look and act refreshingly like real kids. It's based on the book by Thomas Rockwell that has delighted and happily grossed out kids since 1973...

Worming its wayinto your heart
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
Aside from a single reference to the Internet, it would be easy to assume that Bob Dolman's winning adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's 1973 children's book was actually made in the '70s. Here's hoping its old-fashioned sensibility appeals to contemporary kids, because we could certainly use more movies as smart and sweet as this one...