It’s incredibly tedious, and slightly obnoxious. Yet the execution of its ideas are so devoid of integrity – right down to the problematic ending – that you forget about it almost instantly.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2024

A movie that can bring real emotion and feeling is a movie that well worth the time and good for your kids and adults. UGLY DOLLS is above average for the sub-genre of kids entertainment and is good for developing minds and hearts.

| Dec 28, 2022

Ugly Dolls is a feel-good film which the under-10 kids might actually enjoy, unlike a Toy Story, which kids of all ages heartily embraced...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 20, 2022

I will say that the music is fantastic.

| Sep 30, 2021

While it's cute and colorful, the best it can hope for is to appeal to the very youngest members of your family. Yet, as they grow and look back on it, they'll see what you will now: Lightweight animation with a muddled message.

| Jun 28, 2020

Obviously, a children's film has to be on the nose, but the film's unwillingness to explore its own message in depth is disappointing.

| Jan 18, 2020

Even undemanding kids in need of distraction might find it hard not to get restless during this word-heavy, woke animation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2019

With the school holidays on, this movie is a colourful and entertaining 90 minutes for kids under 10. The songs are easy on the ear and there are a couple of good jokes for the adult minders.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 5, 2019

Sadly, the Ugly Dolls animated feature is anything but plush, a combination of dog-eared, deja-vu moments and care-worn plotting that will leave even the most upbeat young moviegoer a little disappointed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2019

A 90-minute commercial for toys disguised as an entertainment.

| Sep 27, 2019

It's all pretty derivative but also pretty wacky, and there's meaning, if you look for it, on a whole lot of levels, from Freudian imagery and hints of religious allegory to the satire of reality 온라인카지노추천.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 25, 2019

Not so much a movie as a contemplative space wherein the viewer ... explores the shifting dynamic between the eponymous plush toys and the hegemony of play.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 19, 2019

Thankfully, the voice cast is packed with popstars who are great at pouring sparky attitude into their performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2019

Positive messaging about celebrating our unique imperfections and seeking your own truth has never felt more urgent to children in the age of Instagram. Pity, then, that this toothless and derivative marketing exercise doesn't practise what it preaches.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2019

Certain scenes may scare more sensitive children but, on the whole, UglyDolls is cutely done, and it earns extra plaudits for being an animation for younger kids that attempts to address age-relevant issues of individuality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2019

The songs are horrifically soppy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2019

While the design is visually striking there's nothing beyond the paper-thin, by-the-numbers nature of UglyDolls.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2019

This paean to body positivity and living your own truth is more than welcome, but you just wish UglyDolls' message could be more charmingly argued, adroitly assembled and just plain funny.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2019

UglyDolls' worst feature is that it's rather bland. For a movie about embracing one's differences, it does seem to be pretty much identical to the many other 'summer holiday kids movies' out there.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 2, 2019

There's a frustratingly passive nature to UglyDolls that prevents it from being the more meaningful film it could have been.

| Jul 3, 2019