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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineComplacent with road-movie tropes, director Ralf Huettner and screenwriter Florian David Fitz's Vincent Wants to Sea is likeable insofar as it's familiar.
- 63Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThis is a bright, broad, silly, harmless movie whose sweetness is a means to an end.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe picture's quiet performances and occasionally surprising moments take it just far enough off the beaten path to make it more than a transparently formulaic feel-good story.
- 50St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsDespite the oddly literate title, Vincent Wants to Sea never deviates from the predictable bonding-through-misadventure script, and it has little to teach us about the nature and treatment of the traveler's respective maladies.
- 40Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyBoxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyTrapped inside the German film Vincent Wants to Sea there's an affecting father-son drama, an amusing road movie, a quirky romantic comedy and a non-patronizing take on mental illness. What we actually get - a homogenized movie-of-the-week set against the Alps and punctuated by anodyne English-language pop songs - brought out the cynic in me.
- 40Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleWhat's missing is any of the real-life messiness that might have lifted this material from its creatively tic-ridden confines.
- 20Time OutTime OutIf Vincent Wants to Sea proves nothing else, it's that a moronically quirky take on mental illness is no more palatable when it's subtitled.
- The principal characters can be reduced to a handful of tics, and the entire story line is immaculately devoid of incidental detail. It's like sitting in a padded cell for about 90 minutes.