Escape from Planet Earth 2013

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: A children's movie about space-traveling blue beings that has lots of high-flying escapades but fairly low aspirations. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: It's unchallenging fun for a younger crowd, but adults might feel like they're staring down a colorful 24-piece board puzzle, trying to figure out how such a simple activity could be drawn out over 90 minutes. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: Colorful as the 3-D aliens-among-us comedy is to look at, though, Corddry is handed a role that's beige as can be, and so are his castmates. Read more

Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: An animated film that goes lamely where many have gone before. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: Has it all for people looking for nothing. Read more

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: Passable animated entertainment is stronger on humor than adventure. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: It never discovers new worlds, but "Escape From Planet Earth" is, in its genial way, escape enough. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It ... provides a few smiles, and a decent amount of rainy-day, kiddie entertainment. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A sci-fi chuckler that somehow manages to elude tedium, despite being a revisionist rip of rival 'toons, from Pixar on down. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: It's a bowl of warm water into which no one has bothered to place a bouillon cube. The kids in the theater with me never mustered a single laugh or gasp of excitement. It's plenty o' nuttin'. Read more

Vadim Rizov, Time Out: The late Douglas Adams summed up Earth as "mostly harmless," a description that also applies to this eminently tolerable animated time-filler. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: A lightweight, warp-speed, brightly colored trifle that should delight small children and sporadically amuse their parents. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Just like its hero and his grounded starship, Escape From Planet Earth is, for much of the film, a decidedly earthbound adventure. Read more