May 14 2009
Film Reviews
With “Harry Potter” redhead Rupert Grint in the lead and its Euro-cool packaging, this Belfast-set story of two 15-year-old pals in lust with the same teenage sex bomb should have no problems pulling young adolescents.
Variety, 12 March 2009
Cherrybomb plays very well indeed. It’s got a dream teen cast – all the main leads are superb and, although none are native to the province, each acquit themselves almost flawlessly as far as Northern Ireland accents are concerned. It’s smart and flashy, with text messages flying around the screen in clever graphics (although admittedly in far more comprehensible and grammatically correct English than your average SMS message), a hip-and-cool David Holmes soundtrack, and a pace that is right in tune with its presumably target teenage audience.
DVD Times, 31 March 2009
As a first feature, if Cherrybomb is any indication of what we can expect from the directorial team of Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa, then there is certainly much to look forward to from them. The film is stylishly directed, briskly paced, and well-acted, especially by the three young leads, Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, and Kimberley Nixon. What appears at first to be a simple tale of male rivalry over a beautiful girl becomes much more as Cherrybomb unfolds, revealing layers of parental emotional neglect, loyalty, friendship and love under a gritty and honest look at teenage life.
Dr. Funkenberry, 25 February 2009