Has little to recommend it. Padded with dance numbers - two in the first fifteen minutes alone - and montages, the best that can be said is that bad movies like this are important to remind us that the Pixar movies aren't flukes.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Sometimes a film critic has to throw himself or herself on a bomb for the good of the movie-going public.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 7, 2019

I really don't have anything good to say about it. I guess congrats for getting a movie made.

| Original Score: F | Apr 17, 2019

In an age where even animated flicks are designed for consumption for the junior and senior of our species, this film somehow manages to take the intelligence of children for granted.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 7, 2017

It's a lazy, cheap, nonsensical ploy to separate you from your money.

| Oct 17, 2017

A harmless kids' toon that's probably the least annoying Schneider vehicle in years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2016

A uniquely charmless motion picture, owing in no small part to the hideous, "attach a corpse to a car battery" quality of the herky-jerky animation.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 6, 2016

If you spent 86 minutes crawling through a snowbank while clad only in a bathing suit, it would probably be a more rewarding experience than sitting through Norm of the North.

| Original Score: 72/100 | Nov 15, 2016

Norm of the North is a rancid excursion into well-intentioned animated chaos that proves to be an excruciating endurance test no one of sound mind or body should ever attempt to watch, and that includes their children.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 16, 2016

With its strangely adult plot about global warming and real estate development and its mediocre animation style, Norm of the North is one to skip.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 2, 2016

Norm of the North is nothing but wasted potential.

| Jul 11, 2016

When stacked up against the Disneys, Pixars and Illuminations of the world, this comparatively modest, lower-tier family film hailing from Lionsgate is middling and kind of lame.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2016

All in all, Norm of the North is one big ball of mess. Uninvolving, unfunny and visually inferior to its peers, this is a straight-to-DVD production at best. How it managed to sneak its way onto the big-screen, we will never know.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 28, 2016

Everything about this movie is pedestrian.

| Mar 25, 2016

In spite of the positive message on the preservation of the wild, the film falls short in the supposedly comedically inclined moments.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2016

Will the toddlers in the audience remember Norm's environmental campaign as they grow up? Perhaps.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2016

Bland, derivative family entertainment Norm Of The North merely underlines the craft and imagination that goes into the Pixar titles.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2016

Plays like a bargain-bin mashup of tropes lifted from Happy Feet, Madagascar, Ice Age et al.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2016

The eco-message is rather vague, the villain not particularly villainous, and the jokes fall flat.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2016

It's all fine without being too exciting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2016