Missing Link is fun, exciting, and beautiful to behold.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 1, 2024

Humongous scope alongside mesmerising sets, and a stylish harnessing of good old fashioned stop motion techniques allows us to feel the vastness of Butler’s ambitions and the enormity of the story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

There is a reason I have a huge place in my heart for stop-motion animation as a medium. It could be the painstakingly crafted claymation, the heartwarming stories perfect for any demographic, the stellar voice casts, or all of that coming together...

| Apr 21, 2022

[A] genius stop-motion animation.

| Sep 14, 2021

Enjoyable for kids who haven't been beaten to death by the same old, same old, but for everyone else, there's a predictability to each scene.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 11, 2021

Missing Link is beautiful to look at, something for which Laika should be rightfully proud. It's just a shame that the story attached to it doesn't live up that standard.

| Feb 18, 2021

It's a sweet, modest, diversion, and a delight for the eyes, and maybe that's enough.

| Feb 8, 2021

An engaging, entertaining motion picture rich with positive universal themes and life lessons.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis lead this bizarre stop-motion animation that oddly feels emotionally soulless.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2020

It is interesting when it deals with issues such as intolerance, exclusion, prejudice and the value of friendship. It is a very entertaining animated adventure. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 30, 2020

There are grownup delights aplenty...from its glorious color palate to the refreshingly angular character design

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2020

The sound design is synesthetic, the textures are top-notch, and . . . the shot composition anticipates eye movement with an almost hypnotic grace.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 27, 2020

When you remember that this has all been made by hand using little more than plasticine and manual labour, you will be left spellbound, reeling from what the team behind this movie are capable of.

| Original Score: 4 / 5 | Jul 27, 2020

Although Missing Link seems more aimed at a younger audience than other Laika productions, it still finds fun ways to be subversive and adult friendly as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2020

Missing Link is another triumph in beautiful stop-motion animation, with a lovely, funny and touching tale of finding friendship. Yet, I can't help feeling it's not quite up to the standards set by its predecessors.

| Jun 28, 2020

Missing Link, a film that does work, but in a very middle ground fare way.

| Apr 4, 2020

Even minor Laika is good.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 9, 2020

The film is sophisticated in its revisionist take on the adventure genre, introducing social and ecological concerns into the mix, though its irreverent humor is still accessible to children.

| Feb 19, 2020

This movie has the distinctive Laika style, but the characters are not as ugly as previous Laika characters in ParaNorman, or The Boxtrolls. It is funny and easy-going. There is a moral to the story, which comes to a satisfactory conclusion.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2019

If only the other elements of Missing Link were as strong as the visuals, we'd have a masterpiece on our hands.

| Nov 22, 2019