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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“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.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)