Yet the Miyazaki-style magic and gentle subversion of Jill Culton's film stops it from feeling like an extended tourist promo. The 12ft dandelions are a delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2019

The central relationship here is not dissimilar to the one in How to Train Your Dragon, (also produced by DreamWorks Animation) but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2019

A blandly-charming, occasionally-thrilling animation...but I wanted a little bit more. Perfectly fine...

| Oct 12, 2019

Here's a defanged, declawed yeti in an animation whose every beat, character and narrative component feels as if it has been algorithmically tested for commercial safety by a computer programme.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2019

Where Abominable may fall down is in the nuts and bolts of charming your little ones. The dialogue is flat, the slapstick flabby.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2019

Abominable strives for originality and, often, achieves it. But it's also never quite daring enough to veer off the beaten path.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2019

If you like E.T. and Bumblebee, chance are you'll have a good time with this slightly homogenous but sweet-natured kids' adventure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2019

Abominable is gorgeously animated, but the story is a little lacking, with a protagonist whose journey is so focused on other characters that we learn little about her own life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2019

Abominable is as entertaining an animated feature as I've seen this year, audiences of all ages almost certain to thrill to its avalanche of pleasures for many years to come.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2019

[A] movie that has rich potential that it too often squanders in favor of routine cartoon antics.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 27, 2019

No, "Abominable" doesn't reinvent the wheel - but it does deliver a lovely ride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2019

The simplicity of the premise puts more pressure on the animation, which is crisp and occasionally beautiful, but not especially imaginative in its design.

| Sep 27, 2019

Some lovely visuals and appealing characters.

| Original Score: B | Sep 27, 2019

This Chinese-American co-production is so distinctive pictorially, and so manifestly good-hearted, that it's easy to forgive if not quite forget the ragged quality of its storyline.

| Sep 26, 2019

The first major co-production between DreamWorks and China's Pearl Studio is a warm and fuzzy animated guide book they could have titled How to Train Your Yeti. It's good family fun as far it goes. It also could have gone further

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Though Culton's script plays a bit formulaic, hitting specific marks of must-have gags, jokes and sentiment at very specific moments, there are enough touches of warmth and sweetness that keep the story enjoyable for audiences both young and not-so-young.

| Sep 26, 2019

There's some gorgeous animation and impeccable camerawork on display here. But as George Lucas' 2015 fiasco Strange Magic demonstrated, beautifully executed visuals will get you only so far.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Yes, as it turns out - not only is "Abominable" as amusing as the competition, it boasts a lyricism and sweetness uniquely, sublimely its own.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2019

But "Abominable," about a girl who discovers a yeti on the rooftop of her Shanghai apartment building, is so safe, so risk-free, so bland, that its business imperatives are never just off-screen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2019

In an age when there's no shortage of beautiful-looking animated films, it can be easy to take "Abominable's" sweeping vistas and sparkling colors for granted. But such surfeit of visual beauty requires storytelling that is comparably bold.

| Sep 26, 2019