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Janet Maslin, New York Times: Parents seeking innocent kiddie entertainment should know that the dinosaurs are drugged, the children are briefly transformed into monkeys and the Professor is eventually devoured by crows. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: We're Back is an exercise in endurance -- not only is it dull, but it has such an overwhelming sense of sweetness that it threatens to become nauseating. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's shallow and kind of dumb, and the animation is routine, and the story isn't much, and the stakes are a lot higher these days in the featurelength animation game. Read more
Daniel M. Kimmel, Variety: In spite of narrative problems... the film's chief appeal is its central conceit -- that giant monsters... can be transformed into [ceatures] who like to play with children. Read more
Jane Horwitz, Washington Post: [A] highly entertaining, relatively gentle animated feature ... Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's vividly animated, it's friendly -- and it's not too long. Read more