Synopsis
An 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.
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Cast
- Winslow FegleyTimmy Failure
- Ophelia LovibondPatty Failure
- Wallace ShawnMr. Crocus
- Craig RobinsonMr. Jenkins
- Kyle BornheimerCrispin
- Ai-chan CarrierCorrina Corrina
- Chloe ColemanMolly Moskins
- KeiRollo Tookus
- Caitlin WeierhauserFlo
- Santiago VeizagaGunnar
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
If you're reading this review because you're wondering what to cue up on your Disney+ subscription, Timmy Failure is the best of the new service's original programs by a wide margin. (Take that, you one-note Baby Yoda.) - 75
RogerEbert.com
One of those quick-witted films in which if one character or plot thread doesn’t work for you, all you have to do is wait a minute for another. - 70
Screen Rant
It walks the fine line between being too whimsical and too dramatic, yet maintains that delicate balancing act over the course of its entire runtime. - 70
Slashfilm
Tom McCarthy gives us a film that serves for a fun family movie night, complete with important lessons, deadpan humor, and, well, a polar bear. - 67
Consequence
Think of Timmy Failure like a food truck: the best ones do one or two things really well, and commit to just doing those things. With McCarthy et al., Timmy Failure‘s virtues are an expertly-delivered dry wit that works for kids and adults alike, and a series of adorable performances, from Fegley and the rest of the kids to the all-too-game adults. - 60
Empire
A frothy fantasy about a boy and his bear that makes up for in style what it lacks in substance. - 50
The New York Times
There isn’t enough in the way of good jokes or clever references to investigators of yore to make the film appealing, and the flatness of Timmy’s delivery, which is supposed to scan as deadpan, doesn’t contain enough nuances to make much of the humor land. - 50
Variety
The quiet humanity of McCarthy’s filmmaking meshes oddly with the material’s zanier demands, finally reaching an anodyne middle ground.
