It’s formulaic, but also largely entertaining, quite touching, occasionally amusing and competently animated.
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What are critics saying?
60
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Resoundingly terrible.
50
The voice ensemble is game, if not especially well matched.
80
The New York Times by Miriam Bale
A wondrous and slightly deranged story about oddballs embracing their differences.
38
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
Khumba is disastrously uninspired. Not even a galaxy of stars, united in their willingness to take a check, can save Khumba from being the boringest plucky outsider of all.
40
Even the film’s key source of charm, its heartfelt allegory about tolerance, becomes a flaw when rare flashes of anarchy (notably a tribe of crazed rodents) are eclipsed by over earnestness.