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Sara Stewart, New York Post: A forgettable - and occasionally borderline offensive - animated tale of turkeys trying to take back Thanksgiving. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: This seemingly innocuous toon fantasy becomes another noxious-but-sanitized exercise in family-friendly cultural insensitivity. Read more
Kevin McFarland, AV Club: A film that was probably close to completion before anyone involved realized they were portraying a fight between turkeys and English settlers as the largest conflict in the European colonization of North America. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It isn't cute. It isn't really funny. It just kind of is. Read more
Jessica Herndon, Associated Press: A solid premiere effort that shows Reel FX's potential to produce quality full-length animation. But the story-line, with its hypothetical constituents, seems a little desperate at times, even for a kiddie film. Read more
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: A welcome foray into underexploited territory, conceptually at least. Read more
Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly: Often, you can point to a middling animated film's visuals as its saving grace. But this colonial world, which should feel like an expansive autumnal panorama, feels oddly inert and two-dimensional. Read more
Kate Erbland, Film.com: A more than worthy (and weird) holiday diversion for the whole family. Read more
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: Like the ungainly avian creatures at the center of the herky-jerky adventure, this 'toon seldom gets off the ground. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: This cheerfully gonzo kid flick. It's no masterpiece, but if you're hoping for a family film that will keep everyone reasonably entertained, this will fly. Read more
Miriam Bale, New York Times: The concept is inane, and the execution is manic and unoriginal. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: A lot of agreeable kookiness compensates for the ramshackle script in this tale of turkeys traveling back in time to prevent becoming an essential part of Thanksgiving dinner. Read more
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: A stale turkey hash that heaves a lot of ingredients in the oven but never turns on the gas, a frantic attempt to come up with an animated film built around Thanksgiving Day traditions. Read more
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com: Everything about "Free Birds" feels perfunctory, from its generic title and holiday setting to its starry voice cast and undistinguished use of 3-D. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: All sidekicks and sight gags, with little story cohesion or purpose. Read more
Bill Zwecker, Chicago Tribune: Free Birds is not (sorry) a turkey of a film. But it doesn't really soar terribly high either. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The movie's animal rights, vegetarian message should go down easily with politically correct parents - at least until they choke on the offensive depiction of 17th-century turkeys as face-painted, headband-wearing native Americans. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: A seasonally pegged 3D cartoon bore that sets the bar so low, it could give a slug a concussion. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Even setting aside the film's disregard for time-travel paradoxes and genocide metaphors -- trust me, you don't want to wade into either of those -- Free Birds just isn't funny. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: Like so many modern animated features, Free Birds packs too much in; the picture feels cramped and cluttered, and, despite its occasionally manic action, it moves as slowly as a fattened bird waddling toward its doom. Read more
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: Finally, there's a movie vegetarian parents can enjoy with their impressionable offspring. Read more