Upside Down

Slant Magazine by

The highlight of the film is the moment Jim Sturgess's Adam inadvertently pisses on the ceiling.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Its compelling conceit is immediately weighed down by leaden execution.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

This head-scratcher boasts visual imagination to spare even as its logistical complexities and heavy-handed symbolism ultimately prove off-putting.

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

The movie builds to a particularly deflating anticlimax, passing over an inevitably apocalyptic confrontation between spheres with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge bit of dialogue that’s like a rejected punchline from a Douglas Adams novel.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

Without a strong narrative engine, Upside Down ends up exactly where it shouldn't go: sideways.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Upside Down is a very fancy piece of junk.

Observer by Rex Reed

True originality is so rare that it’s a treat to welcome a movie as completely different and provocative as Upside Down. It’s unlike anything you have ever seen.

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

Moment for moment, Upside Down is the most embarrassing, hilarious, obliviously stupid movie since M. Night Shyamalan’s "The Happening," and its constant pursuit of a striking image over any other consideration undermines it at every turn.