Spain, United States · 2019
Rated PG · 1h 26m
Director Dylan Brown
Starring Jennifer Garner, Matthew Broderick, John Oliver, Mila Kunis
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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June has always had a vivid imagination. When she was younger, she imagined an amusement park run by animals but her dream faded when her mother got sick. One day June stumbles into the woods and finds that Wonderland, her imaginary amusement park, is real, and it needs her help.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
While Wonder Park starts sweet and shallow, it develops into something more robust. Sometimes it’s a bit too precious, and despite its attempts at comedy, it isn’t all that funny. But as a nuanced young character, June is a refreshing creation. She shines through the glittering theme park.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Like so many animated movies these days, it buries its ideas in a visual and aural cacophony of frenzied action sequences designed to engage the shortest of attention spans.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Older viewers are more likely to appreciate the film’s intentions than fully embrace the story and its characters. Kids, on the other hand, will probably enjoy the frenetic action sequences; plucky heroine; cute, talking animals; and colorful visual representations.
The A.V. Club by Jesse Hassenger
Wonder Park has the unmistakable air of a promising movie no one has taken full responsibility for polishing into a good one.
Chicago Tribune by Katie Walsh
The wonders of Wonder Park are dampened by the pall of grief that the protagonist is experiencing, while the wacky amusement park antics prevent the story from going especially deep.
The Associated Press by Mark Kennedy
Wonder Park has a great premise about a spunky kid engineer and a world she constructs taking flight, but takes a few too many dark loop-de-loops and crashes hard. If you pass this amusement park, skip it.
Paste Magazine by Oktay Ege Kozak
As far as Wonder Park goes, it’s basic, but not condescending. I especially appreciated an important addition to the finale that deals with how children should handle their feelings with balance and moderation.
The notion of a larger-than-life theme-park world as a projection of what June is going through comes directly out of “Inside Out,” but the comparison does Wonder Park no favors, because the earlier film was a masterpiece of bursting ingenuity, leaving this one to play like the scaled-down toddler version. On that score, it must be said that little kids will like Wonder Park just fine. But there’s a difference between a great escape and a winsomely crafted pacifier.
The action beats are colorful and dazzling theme-park rides run amok. Frenetic action substitutes for wit, here.
Instead of an instant classic, we get a noble effort. We need more of those. This is a bright and earnest attempt to craft an on-screen fantasy for modern kids, with a practical moral that anyone could appreciate.
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