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- 10:00 PM, Apr 23
was but seldom inspired to peals of true laughterby A.O. Scott [NY Times ]
those movies that falls between complete disaster and loads of funby Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]
the story is simple enough for a toddler to followby Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]
presented in superfluous 3-D on many screensby Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
mostly, it's a vehicle for Jack Black's zany humorby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
more gimmicky than a crackling good yarnby Kirk Honeycutt [Hollywood Reporter ]
kids will enjoy the rock 'em, sock 'emby Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]
it's cartoonish in the way of a bad action movieby Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]
it's a poor adaptation but that its entertainment value is almost nonexistentby James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]
it simply throws us back to fairy-tale movies of the '50s and '60sby Kyle Smith [New York Post ]
it all feels so lazy and familiarby Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
isn't all filler. Even though it sometimes seems that wayby Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]
entirely Lilliputian in ambition, even for a children's movieReview rate : C- by Keith Staskiewicz [Entertainment Weekly ]
concerning only a shipwrecked sailor and some tiny, cutely bellicose nativesby Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
an obvious hit with kidsby Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
a fair amount of off-color humorby Peter Debruge [Variety ]