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The expectations for McCourt's follow-up to the best-selling Angela's Ashes were high, and critics are uniformly disappointed: It "lacks the drama, the magic, the gentleness, the lilt of the first book" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). They're quick to point out that 'Tis , which picks up McCourt's life at age 19, once he has left Ireland for America, is not a bad book, it's just not as good as the first.
(The horror of the father McCourt describes is that he's not at home on planet Earth.)
While the adaptation is respectful, it "mostly misses the humor, lyricism and emotional charge of Frank McCourt's magical and magnificent memoir" and unfortunately becomes "something resembling a conventional tale of a gifted young man's struggle to lift himself out of oppressive circumstances" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). The harshest complaint: It's just "two hours and 20 minutes of beautifully photographed rain, mud, blood, lice, vomit, dead babies, and whining" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The more upbeat take: The movie is "a thinner version of the novel, but you still get a drama that has you laughing and brokenhearted" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an excerpt from the book.)
McCourt captured the imagination of his rambunctious class by having them transcribe essays written by kids a generation earlier.
The film's not bad, but it's nowhere near the caliber of the beloved Frank McCourt memoir on which it is based.