The passive voice is crucial to the title of “Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made,” a Disney kid-detective caper with a clear enough moral: that owning your errors and apologizing for the…
,” a Disney kid-detective caper with a clear enough moral: that owning your errors and apologizing for them is an essential part of growing up. If any individual mistakes have been made in the film itself, however, they’re as hard to pick out as any particular flourishes of inspiration: This wholesome, gently paced adaptation of cartoonist Stephan Pastis’ quirkier children’s book feels more or less assembled by committee.
Played with brow-furrowed seriousness of purpose by Winslow Fegley — younger brother of “Pete’s Dragon” star Oakes — Timmy is somewhat hard to warm to for a protagonist in a children’s adventure. That’s unusual, but not a debit.
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