Gnomeo and Juliet: Critic Reviews

75%

MovieWeb: 4 reviews

56%

Rotten Tomatoes: 124 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

59

Every movie about cuddly dwarf statues in an English garden should have music this big.
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Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

50

If the movie, which starts out shakily, improves in the second half, it is a discombobulated grab bag of jokes peopled with characters who have little emotional resonance.
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Philip French Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

A lot of thought, love and (on the part of the animators) hard work has gone into this picture...
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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

60

It's a little bit funny. Not much more than a bit, but enough to make this a cheerful, likable children's picture with a big heart.
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USA Today (Top Critic)

Much of the play's dialogue is updated. Jokes fall flat. And a ceramic gnome by any other name is still a kitschy little figure.
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Sean O'Connell Washington Post (Top Critic)

60

Creator Kelly Asbury has discovered imaginative ways to freshen up the timeless material and introduce it to the next generation.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

As enjoyable as non-Pixar kiddie flicks get, a high-spirited, high-end comic revamp of Big Bill's eternal tragedy.
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Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

This lively little film, a comic take on Shakespeare's tragedy, is really entertaining.
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Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

38

If only the 3-D hadn't been wasted on the claustrophobic trappings of a backyard feud.
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Kathleen Murphy MSN Movies (Top Critic)

60

...this primary-colored parable about feuding lawn-ornament clans is easy on the eyes and good for some laffs. Ducking tragedy, [it] still dives into some surprisingly dark waters.
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Ken Marks New Yorker (Top Critic)

"Toy Story" goes Shakespearean in this animated retelling of the tale of the star-crossed lovers of Verona.
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Nell Minow Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

What makes the film most endearing is its unabashed eccentricity.
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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

It's a sorry spectacle, watching garden gnomes being robbed of their dignity.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

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Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

70

"Gnomeo & Juliet" isn't a great movie but it's fun. Can't wait to see what they do with "Turtles Andronicus."
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Justin Chang Variety (Top Critic)

Shakespeare with lawn ornaments turns out to be an unexpectedly winning proposition in Gnomeo & Juliet.
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

63

[A] delightfully silly animated flick, which doesn't wear out its welcome.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

63

If it's not an unerringly faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's play, it still manages enough wit and charm to come off.
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Linda Barnard Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

There's nothing here as clever as you find in Pixar fare, or Dreamwork's successful Shrek franchise, although co-writer/director Kelly Asbury did helm the Oscar-nominated Shrek 2.
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Laremy Legel Film.com (Top Critic)

50

Sadly, the music is largely wasted on the material, as somehow gnomes racing a lawnmower doesn't organically translate to a song about fighting and getting a little action in.
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Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Given the size of the writing staff, it's no surprise the script feels like a committee job, overstocked with a high ratio of groan-to-grin quips.
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Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Despite the novel approach to Shakespeare's oft-told tale of doomed love, this 3D animated garden gnome variation never fully comes to life.
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Christy Lemire Associated Press (Top Critic)

50

What is there to say about a movie that beats its eccentric premise to the ground in the first scene, and doesn't stop?
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Richard Corliss TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

Defiantly derivative and groaning from joke overload, this Disney pickup takes more than half its running time to find a distinctive tone, a reason for being.
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Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

70

Playful, inventive and endearing, this 84-minute epic is smart enough not to overstay its welcome as it steers clear of the fatuous and the formulaic.
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