Boston Globe by Peter Keough

He (Hui) does not achieve the surreal grandeur of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films, but he has enough imagination and talent to engage his audience on its own level.

New York Post by Sara Stewart

If you’re willing to overlook some monstrously big plot holes and logic gaps, this half-animated Chinese blockbuster is an agreeably bonkers, occasionally disturbing cinematic ride.

Entertainment Weekly by Devan Coggan

The plot is even more nonsensical than it sounds, but the monsters’ high-energy antics and the humans’ martial-arts skills make for a delightfully bizarre adventure romp.

RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams

Chinese blockbuster Monster Hunt is a sappy, crowd-pleasing, tonally wonky fantasy-adventure/comedy that pits dorky-looking monsters against over-acting cornball comedians/monster-hunters.

The Seattle Times by Soren Andersen

Director Raman Hui mixes martial-arts fights and slapstick comedy (lots of mugging by Jing) into a whimsical, fast-paced monster mash.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

The film is far from perfect, but it’s certainly ambitious, often entertaining and, compared to the feeble competition from new American films of the moment, a singing, dancing, stomping and chomping “Citizen Kane.”

Slate by David Ehrlich

The plot is too erratic and incoherent to follow, but the constant barrage of noises and colors is more than enough to keep kids entertained.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Bilge Ebiri

Monster Hunt is not a movie that aims for narrative dexterity, or subtlety, or grace. It’s a blunt, bloated object, designed to bludgeon us with silly action and broad humor.

The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

There’s a charm to this that makes Monster Hunt worth seeing if only for curiosity’s sake.

The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

Some of this recalls Stephen Chow’s “Journey to the West,” minus the brilliance.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Monster Hunt combines a lot of qualities from the other items on the all-timer’s list: epic action, elaborate special effects, broad comedy, and a style that could best be described as “exhausting.”

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

Take it as a transitional comedy for kids about to outgrow “Kung Fu Panda” and keep your expectations low — very low — and you won’t mind it.

Los Angeles Times by Charles Solomon

While individual sequences are genuinely entertaining, Monster Hunt remains considerably less than the sum of its many parts.

Village Voice by Sherilyn Connelly

There are some scary moments among the slapstick, and the picture surprisingly doesn't pull its punches during its Harry and the Hendersons–style denouement, but Monster Hunt is hindered by its overlong running time and often mawkish sentimentality.

Washington Post by Stephanie Merry

Monster Hunt has visual appeal to spare, but the allure ends there.