Childish, unrealistic, and immature - in a good way.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 29, 2020

Featuring Rodriguez himself in no less than eight roles and six members of his family in the cast.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 23, 2020

Light, silly fun, amiably performed by both its veteran cast and exuberant young 'uns.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2014

Whether he's doing Sin City or Spy Kids, Rodriguez always infantilizes his audience, jolting our synapses and indulging our slavering desires for goop and gore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

It is a wildly self-indulgent fantasy adventure that should have gone straight to Youtube, where all 'Dad-thinks-he's-cool-with-a-camera' home videos belong.

| Aug 9, 2010

Chaotic, messy, and horribly mind-numbing...

| Dec 12, 2009

Yes, it's definitely made for the much younger set, but it also has quite a few zany little off guard touches, resulting in genuine laughs for anyone who can appreciate the humor.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 7, 2009

...what poignancy is served injecting heavy messages about parenting... into a movie which glorifies the suburban existence, makes light of bullying, and gratuitously employs property destruction for comic effect?

| Original Score: C | Dec 6, 2009

...a mishmash of slapstick fights, tiny green men, galumphing alligators, nose picking, giant booger monsters, and endless silliness.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 20, 2009

Shorts is constantly pinballing back and forth, from one thing to the next, in such a hyperactive fashion that one wishes it would just slow down a bit.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 19, 2009

A fun trifle -- essentially, a homemade 'Little Rascals' update in which youngsters with a 'wishing rock' wreak accidental havoc (and create upright crocodiles, a giant dung beetle, a 'big bad booger' monster and an intellectual telepathic baby).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2009

All of these adventures call on Rodriguez's fascination with visual effects, which could be tough on his human cast, but he has the wit to keep them in focus. All up, it's good fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2009

A kid-friendly caper that's drunk a bit too much CGI-spiked red cordial.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2009

Exactly the sort of kid-in-a-candy-store experience you'd expect.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 14, 2009

Good clean fun is what Robert Rodriguez delivers in this energetic and inventive film about wishes and being connected.

| Sep 10, 2009

Boy, is this dumb. I mean in the way that something can be so silly and disgusting it's dumb.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 5, 2009

That potential is not realized in "Shorts" primarily because of the chaotic structure of the story, which lurches back through a series of disjointed flashbacks.

| Original Score: C | Sep 2, 2009

Dives straight into whiz-bang gizmoland, opting for "pause, rewind" flourishes. Cute and enjoyable family fare, then, if a little forced.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2009

It's a vacuous feature, devoid of any charms; a cartoon mishmash missing fizz and ingenuity to make it bearable to any audience member crazy enough to evolve beyond a fascination with nostril functions.

| Aug 30, 2009