Wonder Park

"Little kids will like "Wonder Park" just fine. But there's a difference between a great escape and a winsomely crafted pacifier."

"In the amiable animated feature "Wonder Park," a child's imagination can power an amusement park. Unfortunately, the movie falls shy of providing the same sensory thrill ride."

"Seemingly destined to find a second-life as a Nickelodeon TV series, as a big screen outing, Wonder Park offers mildly diverting fun."

"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."

"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."

"Paramount Animation and Ilion Animation Studios deserve to be in the same conversation as DreamWorks, Pixar, and Disney."

"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."