It just keeps going, my goodness.

| Nov 30, 2022

It’s a funny, bouncy romp with strong singing and dancing talent and just the right touch of snark to please any Scrooge.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2022

There’s a delightfully eccentric song called Good Afternoon that rocks... The rest of the film is a turgid yawn that struggles with its too-high concept.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2022

Spirited tries turning A Christmas Carol on its head, and while it’s big and boisterous, the movie isn’t consistently irreverent enough to feel like much more than a streaming stocking stuffer.

| Nov 17, 2022

Spirited never gets you to a place of soaraway joy, exactly, but it’s busy, silly and not a bad time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2022

At a certain point, you just wish they'd get on with it already. But it delivers the Christmas movie goods.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2022

It is fun and features some dandy song and dance song numbers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 16, 2022

Its characters and premise are as classic as they come, but the plot comes with quirky curveballs and overly elaborate dance sequences which are just as much a treat as they are an assault on the senses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2022

A lively premise, with some decent gags (and a few too many songs), Spirited is unlikely to trouble any 'Greatest Ever Christmas Movie' lists — but it brings plenty of seasonal good cheer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2022

Fans of Mr. Ferrell and Mr. Reynolds have likely never seen them in anything this earnest and tacky before, and are liable to feel somewhere between betrayed and stunned.

| Nov 11, 2022

When Spirited has so many of its ornate pieces in sync, it can be a joyous cinematic treat like very few others of past or present.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 11, 2022

It’s almost like a community theater production of an original musical—so very rough around the edges but also pretty easy to root for in the end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 11, 2022

A jolly, bouncy musical...showing skills in both sarcasm and sincerity, the two funnymen sing their way through a new adventure of the Ghost of Christmas Present.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 11, 2022

“Spirited” was never going to be any good, but it would have been slightly better — and a change of pace — if Reynolds and Ferrell had switched roles.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 11, 2022

Such an amusing, buoyant and good-natured entertainment that it’s not hard to forgive this flashy musical-comedy-fantasy’s missteps.

| Nov 10, 2022

Though Spirited comes up short as a musical, it is still pretty enjoyable. Perhaps that’s because it is just so stuffed with everything else: If one part doesn’t totally work, there’s plenty else in the four-quadrant buffet to sample.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 10, 2022

It looks expensive and attempts to do everything at once, but it’s more shine than substance — and about as funny as the market price of a new iPhone.

| Nov 10, 2022

While not without some issues, the movie lands as a modern-day fable whose colorfully packaged and exuberantly pitched life lessons carry an undeniable timeliness.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 10, 2022

To borrow one of its sung sentiments, “Spirited” is sure to send out ripples of joy this holiday season. Though it may not make any waves, it’s enough to spread a little good cheer.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 9, 2022

In the name of “doing a little good” like the movie suggests, I will say Spirited is not completely unredeemable.

| Original Score: 6.8/10 | Nov 9, 2022