This writer would like to thank the young gentleman who vigorously kicked the back of her chair during the family preview screening, thereby keeping her awake.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 12, 2019

You and your children will have sat through many worse films that took far easier routes to the screen - which is not to say that Wonder Park is not immediately forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 12, 2019

Kind of a poor man's Inside Out or Up, the story fails to earn its emotional stripes and instead goes haywire with non-stop hecticness involving barely sketched characters.

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

It's hard to dismiss Wonder Park out of hand. It's a film for tots that's asking genuinely huge questions, mostly about the nature of play as an act of denial...And for that alone it's worthy of attention and respect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2019

It aspires to be Inside Out but falls way short.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2019

Wonder Park feels like a tribute act from every angle, but there are worse things children's films can do than openly mimic the greats.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2019

A few hectic chase scenes aside, children will likely find the film both boring and upsetting, a deadly combination.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Wonder Park has a splendiferous story to tell. If only all the pages were there.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 21, 2019

Wonder Park hammers home feelings of abandonment to underline a message about creativity that didn't need such emotionally downbeat elements to have resonance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2019

It's all so hyperactively paced and so frenetically animated I can't say the film as a whole left me satisfied.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 15, 2019

To put it simply, "Wonder Park" can't keep the wonder and the park on the same page.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 15, 2019

Melancholy in all the wrong ways, this is a mostly forgettable movie that only makes a strong impression when it's disturbing or saddening in a manner the film itself seem only dimly aware of.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 15, 2019

The wonders of Wonder Park are dampened by the pall of grief that the protagonist is experiencing, while the wacky amusement park antics prevent the story from going especially deep.

| Mar 15, 2019

The character design is bland...bit the Wonderland is indeed wonderful and the message of imagination as a sustaining source of comfort is wonderful as well.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 15, 2019

If "Wonder Park" were a carnival attraction, it would be the merry-go-round. The animated movie has animals, relentless positivity and the most predictable journey ever.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2019

A clumsy but amiable kids movie with a streak of sincerity that stretches further than the Wonder Park itself.

| Mar 14, 2019

But even before it gets to its conspicuously director-less end credits, Wonder Park has the unmistakable air of a promising movie no one has taken full responsibility for polishing into a good one.

| Original Score: C | Mar 14, 2019

Wonder Park feels like the kind of mild attraction that younger kids might enjoy when it hits secondary platforms. It's just not an adventure that's worth the price of a ticket or standing in line to see.

| Mar 14, 2019

Wonder Park brings a welcomed depth to its base plot of a girl creating roller coasters. While the premise that reads like a generic fantasy-adventure-comedy for kids, the film manages to intelligently traverse a wide range of emotions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2019

Wonder Park has a great premise about a spunky kid engineer and a world she constructs taking flight, but takes a few too many dark loop-de-loops and crashes hard. If you pass this amusement park, skip it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 14, 2019