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80This lively little film, a comic take on Shakespeare's tragedy, is really entertaining.
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80This gently amusing, genuinely sweet animated film makes you smile from start to finish?
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80Kids will fall in love with it as a movie treat full of heart, laughs and fantastic songs, and it could have crossover appeal as a Valentine date night treat thanks to all its pointy-hatted romance.
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Feb 11, 201175Any film that dares to cast the bat-chewing heavy-metal legend as a gentle, ceramic reindeer named Fawn is okay in my Bard book.
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75Stays too low to the ground to become an animated classic, but if there's a fairer midwinter's tale, wherefore art thou?
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75It has its own bizarre charms and a breezy confidence that renders it the very definition of a simple pleasure.
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70A welcome dose of honest silliness at a time when most family-oriented toons settle for smart-alecky.
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70The voices are outstanding; the story demands British accents, and with such people as Caine and Smith providing them, so much the better.
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67Every movie about cuddly dwarf statues in an English garden should have music this big.
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65Theatrically inclined parents will also appreciate a passing reference to the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Moving Co.
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63The clever screenplay, co-written by director Kelly Asbury (who co-helmed "Shrek 2"), follows the DreamWorks template of combining pop culture references, sight gags and action for the kids, and more sophisticated humor for adults.
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63If it's not an unerringly faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's play, it still manages enough wit and charm to come off.
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60There is some fun to be found in this goofy riff on Shakespeare.
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60Totally crackers but it gets powered by pure invention and eccentricity alone.
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58Far too much of the film is devoted to eye-rolling pop-culture gags and long montages set to recycled Elton John songs.
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50Terra-cotta gnomes, the sort that decorate people's lawns, are the characters of this bizarre feature animation, which lampoons the British obsession with gardening and upholds a long tradition of cartoons pitched to tots and stoners.
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50It's not really a Disney film. Rather, this is a product of Starz Animation. It's a key distinction, because -- well, because Starz Animation is no Disney, and it's certainly no Pixar. It proves that here.
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50The movie is nothing if not anxious to please. There's a big, diverse, celebrity voice cast – Maggie Smith, Hulk Hogan and Dolly Parton as well as Caine and Osbourne.
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50A ceramic gnome by any other name is still a kitschy little figure.
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50It's a sorry spectacle, watching garden gnomes being robbed of their dignity.
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Feb 10, 201150The script feels workshopped to death yet still hits only a single broad note of irony-drenched whimsy, but the voice-work sparkles and the action-heavy animation clips along fluidly. There's charm in the backyard, but it's still of a garden variety.
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50The result is a knockoff cinematic ceramic.
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50The movie comes up short on inspiration despite a stellar voice cast that includes James McAvoy and Emily Blunt and a toe-tapping songbook by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
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40The movie's overall lack of imagination is the real tragedy.
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40What a dud of a story! You know what it needs to dress it up? Garden gnomes.
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25As weird as it sounds.
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20This is perhaps for Shakespeare completists only.
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11Novelty alone does not a good idea make, and in the case of Gnomeo and Juliet, it's rather a disturbing, even fetishy one.