This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I liked the show and have the whole series. Beaver was cute in the first few seasons and the show focused on that. The show was kind of about kids, but also about how parents...parent. Ward and June came across as good parents. In the later seasons, Beaver was not so cute and so the show focused more on Wally and his friends. It would have been cool to have the show follow Wally to college and see how well he did. A lot of my life was like this show. Both of my parents were working professionals so they were both dressed up most of the time. My mom worked but we had a housekeeper (few days a week) so mom was around when we got home from school.We were free range kids and nobody really knew where we were at.

A big thank you to everyone that worked on this show. I have very fond memories "Leave it to Beaver." Growing up in the early 1970's I watched reruns of this show on a local TV channel every afternoon. Beaver and Wally feel like best friends when you're a kid. Even though I was growing up in the 70's the small neighborhood where I grew up felt as though it was still the 1950's and shows like this just added to a great childhood.Great lessons for kids and families alike. I wish there were still shows like this today. Most would probably call shows like this "cheesy" but shows like this are what kids remember fondly into adulthood and emmulate actions of a show's characters. Beaver found himself in trouble but always found out truth is best.

There is so little these days that makes me laugh. Few things that pass for comedy are actually funny to me. It seems it all has to be graphic, obnoxious, or push some imagined envelope. I find that there are no envelopes yet to be pushed. Since the culture is so jaded, nothing shocks or surprises any more so it's quite hard to get a laugh by being outrageous (thank God!). Comedy, therefore, is a difficult medium. What remains? In order to be funny, it still must strike some chord in reality, and some subtlety (IMO) is required. In accord with these things, the most recent series that consistently delivered for me was "The Cosby Show" (unless I must count the first 2 or 3 seasons of "The Office", which I thought had some potential, but quickly KILLED my interest). Still, I watch re-runs of Beaver, and I can't help it, I laugh out loud at least once/per episode. Besides, who hasn't known an "Eddie Haskel"?? Do we really need more depressing reality telling us we're all screwed-up and no one really has any helpful answers? Do we really need to bemoan the time when moms made a career of their families (perish the thought!)? My guess is that families were stronger, children were involved in far less destructive behavior, and men felt like men. No, people didn't have as many material possessions, but I think people were more content, and ultimately, I think women were, in a real sense, contributing to a much healthier society. Was life perfect then? No; but could what we have now ever be described as such? If anyone thinks so, I would definitely disagree. "Leave It To Beaver" still strikes a chord, and it's still humorous.

Every so often I sit down to watch this show with my mom whenever it comes on TVLand, and the thing that invariably surprises me is the serious edge to the silly humor. Leave It to Beaver has a Charles Schulz sensibility to it: while it's appropriate for all ages, there's a menacing subtext to it that you don't fully appreciate as a child. Parents interact with their children in the most horrendous ways, often talking down to them, yelling at them, selling them short, speaking ill of them, or in general being very condescending (especially Larry's mother, who is downright evil, and Lumpy's father, who is too obsessed with his public image to show any feelings of warmth for his son). Even Saintlike Ward and June are occasionally guilty of unnecessary harshness. Beaver's friends often relate stories that culminate with them being "clobbered" or smacked, leaving the viewer to decide whether they are exaggerating a very just punishment, as children are wont to do, or if their words entail literal physical abuse, which also wouldn't surprise me given the on screen behavior of many of the adults. When the kids aren't being abused, they're often completely ignored; being children, their problems are hardly ever taken seriously by grown-ups who simply don't remember how an apparently trivial matter can be a very real crisis in youth. As Wally often says, Beaver is "just a dumb kid" and is usually treated as such.This aspect of the show, however, isn't a bad thing. It's just another example of how writers of ages past had to often imply dark issues that censors wouldn't allow an explicit exploration of. In some ways, I prefer this more subtle approach to today's, which essentially involves graphic displays of every conceivable societal or familial dysfunction, overloading the senses with obvious depictions of misfortune.All that aside, I can only conclude by saying that Leave It to Beaver is still a fine example of strong sitcom writing, even though a lot of it appears silly or naive by today's standards. Some episodes (like the one where Wally gives Beaver a haircut) are simply uproarious. The show began to decline when Beaver hit puberty, mainly because the writers apparently couldn't adapt the zany situations to make them more appropriate for his age. Beaver became a 9-year-old trapped in a fifteen-year-old's body, still mindlessly spewing words like "golly" and "jeepers", still failing to think things through on the most basic level, still creeped out by girls and lost in a world of juvenile fantasy. You can't sell a show based on its cuteness factor when the youngest character is in high school. At least they had enough sense not to desperately introduce a toddler to the cast in the waning years so they could skirt by on cheap jokes and mispronounced words, unlike many other sitcoms that have clearly jumped the shark.This review is getting much more cynical then I really intended, so I'll just end it here. Make of it what you will.