Reception
The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 30% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 77 reviews; the critical consensus stated, "Bland, unoriginal, and lacking the wit of the TV series, Hey Arnold is a 30-minute cartoon stretched beyond its running time." Metacritic recorded a score of 47 based on 23 reviews, indicating "Mixed or average reviews". The film received some positive reviews such as those at The New York Post, The San Francisco Chronicle and Entertainment Weekly.
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“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)