The Archies is just the sort of fun, upbeat film to instill a little hope and joy and leave you dancing long after the credits roll.
75
RogerEbert.comSimon Abrams
RogerEbert.comSimon Abrams
The Archies celebrates its protagonists’ character-defining youth by letting them be cute, doofy, and mostly self-absorbed.
71
Paste MagazineJesse Hassenger
Paste MagazineJesse Hassenger
Even as it endeavors to ultimately subvert a few Archie Comics tropes and deepen a few of its initial teen-movie stereotypes, The Archies feels reluctant to instigate lasting change in its characters, like a TV series preparing for a long run. Here’s the thing, though: I’d happily spend another two and a half hours with The Archies, so long as it kept the music going.
The whole shebang is quite bizarre but sort of works, thanks to the brisk pacing of the editing and the joie de vivre that directors Zoya Akhtar and Ryan Brophy inject into the proceedings.