Parents might take the time to read the American folklore tales to children before going. However, even this might become confusing, because the movie seeks to rewrite folklore by getting cute, though never humorous, with the legends.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 25, 2022

Dang it if Disney's latest for kids doesn't seem like The Wizard of Oz in chaps, sharing that classic's structure but minus its imagination, charm and songs.

| Aug 16, 2017

It's homespun homily time: TALL TALE may look like a rousing adventure story for the whole family, but it's really a vehicle for the kind of tiresome moral aphorisms that only William Bennett could love. . .

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2017

The exquisitely photographed landscapes pull you out of your living room and into the grandeur of the West.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 16, 2017

This film contains the stereotypical western adventure movie material.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 9, 2017

Excuse me, is this any lesson for kids? Hey, kids, if you dream hard enough, mythical heroes will step out of your fantasies and help defeat your enemies with fancy gunplay.

| Jun 13, 2013

If the kids can be enticed into theaters during opening weekend, "Tall Tale" is a safe bet to generate strong word of mouth.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2005

This is not the stuff of which legends are made.

| Aug 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2003

A good Disney fantasy adventure for kids.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2003

Proves that allies are always available to those who yearn to do the right thing.

| Aug 26, 2002

If a good children's film is supposed to open the eyes of its young audience, then the somewhat misleadingly titled "Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill" is mighty good.

| Feb 13, 2001

Mickey's minions herein transform three of America's rootin'est, tootin'est frontier superheroes into politically and ecologically corrected pablum-spewing icons for our time.

| Jan 1, 2000

A children's movie with enough gumption, fire and wit to warm the cockles of an adult heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

I know it's odd to praise a film like Pecos Bill for its humanistic values, but these are strange days in which we live.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 57/100 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The story, told with energy and humor, is aimed at family audiences, and should appeal to all but the smallest of children.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000