- 8
It?s not a masterpiece, but it?s most certainly a milestone.
—Robert Wilonsky Village Voice
- 8
...a clever entertainment that with its onscreen battles and old movie references spans several generations of moviegoing.
—Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter
- 8
What does it say about the current state of cinema that Monsters vs. Aliens, animated in a '50s retro style, albeit with an assist from the latest in 3-D technology, and aimed roughly at the under-12 set, turns out to be the movie making one of the strongest statements about female empowerment out there today?
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 7
It's an affectionate, fairly funny riff on 1950s sci-fi movies...
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 7
This fits the mold of a great movie for kids. It?ll entertain the young ones without making the parents in the audience feel like they?ve just killed more brain cells than a week-long bender.
— Premiere
- 7
...cheerfully converts two major sources of cinematic terror into wacky, goofy, familiar figures.
—A. O. Scott New York Times
- 7
...freaky, fun but formulaic...
—Matt Stevens E!
- 6
...a mostly enjoyable send-up of '50s B movies...
—Jason Lynch People
- 6
...ginormically showy but super-average...
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
- 6
Sadly, it's a little bit of moviemaking magic surrounded by loads and loads of scripted stupidity.
—Bill Gibron Reel
- 6
WALL-E had more charm, more soul, more everything. But there's enough merry mischief here to satisfy, even if you?re way past puberty.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 6
I suppose kids will like this movie, especially those below the age of reason. Their parents may not be as amused, and if they have several children, may ask themselves how much it was worth for the kids to wear the glasses. Is there a child who would see this movie in 2-D (which has brighter colors than 3-D) and complain?
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 6
...that extra inspiration needed to truly knock this one out of the park is noticeably missing.
—Todd McCarthy Variety
- 6
...isn?t a movie so much as a gag-delivery system wrapped in special effects.
—Tasha Robinson Onion AV Club
- 5
This is a must see in IMAX 3-D only. If that's not an option, it's perfectly missable.
—Eric Alt Maxim
- 5
...a nicely CGied, mildly amusing trifle without a sturdy?or, in this case, even coherent?thematic backbone...
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 5
It's a title that promises much more than it could ever truly deliver.
—Bill Gibron filmcritic.com
- 4
...a bizarre percentage of the project went wrong somewhere, along with the tomato.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 3
...clunky and wildly unimaginative...
—Lou Lumenick New York Post