Boxoffice Magazine by Pete Hammond

Kids will fall in love with it as a movie treat full of heart, laughs and fantastic songs, and it could have crossover appeal as a Valentine date night treat thanks to all its pointy-hatted romance.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

This gently amusing, genuinely sweet animated film makes you smile from start to finish?

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

This lively little film, a comic take on Shakespeare's tragedy, is really entertaining.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

It has its own bizarre charms and a breezy confidence that renders it the very definition of a simple pleasure.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Joe Williams

Stays too low to the ground to become an animated classic, but if there's a fairer midwinter's tale, wherefore art thou?

Washington Post by Sean O\\\\\\\'Connell

Any film that dares to cast the bat-chewing heavy-metal legend as a gentle, ceramic reindeer named Fawn is okay in my Bard book.

Variety by Justin Chang

A welcome dose of honest silliness at a time when most family-oriented toons settle for smart-alecky.

Arizona Republic by Bill Goodykoontz

The voices are outstanding; the story demands British accents, and with such people as Caine and Smith providing them, so much the better.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Every movie about cuddly dwarf statues in an English garden should have music this big.

NPR by Bob Mondello

Theatrically inclined parents will also appreciate a passing reference to the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Moving Co.

Orlando Sentinel by Roger Moore

If it's not an unerringly faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's play, it still manages enough wit and charm to come off.

Empire by David Hughes

Totally crackers but it gets powered by pure invention and eccentricity alone.

The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

The movie comes up short on inspiration despite a stellar voice cast that includes James McAvoy and Emily Blunt and a toe-tapping songbook by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Time Out by Nick Schager

The movie's overall lack of imagination is the real tragedy.

Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek

What a dud of a story! You know what it needs to dress it up? Garden gnomes.

Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones

Novelty alone does not a good idea make, and in the case of Gnomeo and Juliet, it's rather a disturbing, even fetishy one.