Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Feb 2, 2021 3.5/5

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.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 24, 2020 1.5/4.0

Bogged down by insipid dialogue.

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Grant Watson Fiction Machine Feb 24, 2020 3/10

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

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Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Dec 8, 2019

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

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Rachel Wagner rachelsreviews.net May 2, 2019 D

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

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Andre Meadows Black Nerd Comedy Mar 2, 2018

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

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Kyle Anderson Nerdist Jan 2, 2016 1/5

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

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Norman Wilner NOW Toronto Dec 18, 2015 2/5

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.

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Violet LeVoit AllMovie Dec 3, 2015 2/5

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

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Dec 1, 2015

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

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Helen O'Hara Empire Magazine Aug 27, 2015 2/5

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

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Trevor Johnston Radio Times Aug 20, 2015 2/5

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

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Eddie Harrison The List Aug 17, 2015 1/5

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

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MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher May 24, 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.

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Nathanael Hood The Young Folks Apr 16, 2015 5/10

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

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Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Feb 22, 2015 1/4

There's little magic in this latest from Lucas.

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Feb 13, 2015 3/5

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.

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Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice Feb 2, 2015

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

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Sandie Angulo Chen Common Sense Media Jan 30, 2015 2/5

Uneven animated musical is stranger than it is magical.

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Steve Davis Austin Chronicle Jan 29, 2015 1/5

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."

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