Jaded 74-year-old reptile Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher.
"Breaking out this November."
Top Billed Cast
Adam Sandler
Leo (voice)
Bill Burr
Squirtle (voice)
Cecily Strong
Mrs. Malkin (voice)
Jason Alexander
Jayda's Dad (voice)
Rob Schneider
Principal (voice)
Allison Strong
Mrs. Salinas (voice)
Jo Koy
Coach Kimura (voice)
Sadie Sandler
Jayda (voice)
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2023-11-22
"Leo" is a lizard who has lived with his tortoise pal "Squirtle" in a school classroom watching the kids come and go over the years. They've actually become quite adept at on-the-spot evaluations of them - the spoiled ones, rich ones, lonely ones etc., and are a bit tired and cynical. A chance conversation gives "Leo" a bit of an headache - he may be about to die of old age! He is determined not to end his days in this glass cage, and when a disciplinarian supply teacher ("Ms. Malkin") decides that each child has to take a pet home for the weekend, he sees an opportunity to abscond! Needless t...
R r96skVerified TMDB Critic
2024-02-17
Unexpectedly quite fun.
Happy Madison Productions and Netflix teaming up for an animation flick hardly sets the pulse racing and as such I was, perhaps naively, anticipating <em>'Leo'</em> to fall rather flat. Happily, I was wrong. It does a great job at merging meaning and humour, I laughed a fair bit.
My negative predictions were almost confirmed as soon as Adam Sandler starts talking in this 2023 film, as the voice he puts on was one I thought was going to be very grating. However, again, that was not the case. He makes it work and then some. Bill Burr is also a pleasant cast member. ...
