It manages to recover in time toward its conclusion in the best way possible, but you can't shake the feeling that it could have been much more well-rounded. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

You just wish the journey were a little more entertaining. The jokes are OK, not hilarious, and the songs are merely fine — certainly below Menkin’s best work.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 31, 2024

A solid if fairly derivative attempt to steal Disney’s thunder. There’s enough pep and vigour here to keep kids interested, if not quite enough for the grown-ups. 

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

So, too, may viewers of "Spellbound" occasionally sense the enchantment zones of their brains lighting up, more as a reflexive response to dim memories of past animated features than as a genuine reaction to the derivative pastiche onscreen.

| Dec 9, 2024

Spellbound is more enchantment than curse.

| Dec 6, 2024

Skydance is a puzzlement. They have more money than Daddy Warbucks and a lot of talented people working there. And yet their first film, Luck, was terrible and this one is not a lot better.

| Dec 5, 2024

An often lovely animated tale with some wonderful, fun songs that deals with issues normally reserved for some of the best of our live-action family tales like E.T. and Where The Wild Things Are.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 2, 2024

It fails to get the magic needed to be convincing.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 1, 2024

Even Wish is more competently made and more worthwhile to watch than this.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Nov 29, 2024

Spellbound is not quite as insightful or emotionally resonant as the top-tier animated children's films. But it's a cute, fun adventure that younger audiences will still have a blast with.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2024

In an ambitious and exciting age of animation this isn't good enough. Totally generic

| Nov 29, 2024

Zegler puts her amazing vocal range to great use in a playbook of quality songs from Alan Menken and Glenn Slater.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 27, 2024

A losing battle against a script that's low on wit, sparkle and suspense - with no real nemesis to speak of, the story lacks stakes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2024

So while Spellbound's exterior may not always break the mold, its heart is more than happy to break new ground, gifting us a truly special ending.

| Nov 27, 2024

Sometimes, you end up respecting what a movie’s trying to discuss more than you enjoy the film itself. Case in point, Spellbound.

| Nov 26, 2024

Spellbound largely conforms to the typical beats of a road narrative, albeit sprinkled with some surprising moments. Most striking are the visuals, rendered with vivacity and poignancy.

| Nov 26, 2024

Spellbound, will merely inspire yawns and children to quickly ask if they can rewatch The Mitchells vs the Machines or The Wild Robot instead.

| Nov 25, 2024

If only this animated musical could break the spell of mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 24, 2024

Younger viewers will certainly get something out of the third act, but everyone could have gotten much more if the rest of the film was up to that standard

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 23, 2024

Spellbound goes from blank screen to utter trainwreck in record time. Why? Because there’s absolutely no first act to Spellbound. None.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 23, 2024