Something Special

Ramona and Beezus premiers tomorrow and we've been posting links to some of the reviews of the movie on our Twitter-account. Most of the reviewers have said nice things about Sandra Oh's performance in the movie, but this one from Michael Phillips, the movie critic at Chicago Tribune, is the nicest. He starts his review like this:

Know how to give mild G-rated fare a little something special? Cast Sandra Oh as an elementary school teacher who enjoys her orderly ways, and who regards the Ramona half of "Ramona and Beezus," taken from the venerable Beverly Cleary children's books, as more challenge than charmer.

Oh's droll supporting turn as Ramona's third-grade instructor reminds us how much good a performer can do even when the material makes her work for it.