Takes some simple ideas-beauty is only skin deep and love conquers all-and sprinkles them with fairy dust to create a musical that plays like Moulin Rouge for kids.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Bogged down by insipid dialogue.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

As it stands, this is the sort of project for which the term 'colossal misfire' seems purposefully coined.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 24, 2020

Although not for everyone... Strange Magic is a joyous movie-going experience.

| Dec 8, 2019

This is just a predictable bland movie with a lot of music kids won't have heard of.

| Original Score: D | May 2, 2019

There's a lot of big missteps...but it's not as terrible as some people are going to say.

| Mar 2, 2018

This movie is loathsome, that's what it is. I don't know why it exists. Don't see it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 2, 2016

It doesn't make a lick of sense, and if kids are the target audience, they won't get much out of the only-sort-of-appropriate playlist, which tries to build a jukebox musical out of ELO, Bob Marley, Elvis, the Four Tops, Queen and such.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 18, 2015

How ironic that a movie proclaiming to be all about love ends up having no heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 3, 2015

The musical numbers eventually blur in to one another resembling more droning white noise than characters expressing their feelings.

| Dec 1, 2015

While there are fun moments, the whole is an odd mix of grotesquerie and cutesiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2015

Ultimately, the impressively ornate visuals don't make up for a lack of genuine emotional impact.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2015

A mess of broad comedy, soppy romance and slapdash songs unlikely to win over the hearts or minds of either sex.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 17, 2015

Apparently this was inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, but it has about as much in common with that as Burger King does with Macbeth.

| May 24, 2015

The film doesn't have enough faith in itself to let the story, visuals, and atmosphere speak for themselves.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 16, 2015

There's little magic in this latest from Lucas.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 22, 2015

The animation, which has a look of Arthur Rackham mixed with Maxfield Parrish, is fluid, visually striking and, for some strange reason, vaguely alarming. All in all, there are far worse family movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2015

The best Lucas film in 25 years: funny, idiosyncratic, hippy-dippy, packed with creatures and visions worth beholding.

| Feb 2, 2015

Uneven animated musical is stranger than it is magical.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2015

By the time the film's ending upends traditional conventions with its unlikely couplings, you're too distracted to fully appreciate the chutzpah, instead cringing at the opening chords of "Wild Thing."

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 29, 2015