Over the Moon
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 23, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
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80
PolygonJesse HassengerOct 23, 2020
On the Rocks is her most accessible movie so far, with less hazy atmosphere and a sturdier, more traditional center: Laura is written by Coppola and performed by Rashida Jones with a directness lacking in The Virgin Suicides or Lost in Translation. Read full review
80
EmpireBen TravisOct 16, 2020
Netflix wants to prove it can do what Disney does – and it more or less succeeds. Vibrant and heartfelt with tunes to boot, there’s plenty of love in Over The Moon. Read full review
80
Screen RantMolly FreemanOct 15, 2020
An explosion of wonder, color and magic, Over the Moon tells a beautifully sentimental story of family and love, with super catchy songs mixed in. Read full review
75
The Associated PressMark KennedyOct 22, 2020
The transition — from hyperreal cooked crabs that glisten in a bowl in the first 30 minutes of the film to amorphous, gooey Candyland critters 30 minutes later — is jarring. The sequences on the moon grow tiresome, despite huge toads that fly and squeaky-voiced critters. Read full review
75
Original-CinThom ErnstOct 22, 2020
Over the Moon is a delightful tale sure to appeal to a younger audience without too much fear of chasing away the rest of the family. Read full review
75
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiOct 22, 2020
It’s an impressively realistic touch from a studio that’s neither Disney nor DreamWorks. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 26, 2020
The cluttered story and the shifts in form might lose you from time to time, but the film conjures some genuinely powerful emotions. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerOct 14, 2020
Sometimes charmingly fantastical, Over the Moon definitely doesn't have the fairytale elegance of Keane's earlier work. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 23, 2020
It’s a pleasant kid-friendly diversion on a par with Pearl’s “Abominable." Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 9, 2020
At its most beguiling, director Glen Keane’s animated film Over the Moon mixes the unbridled free-association of playtime with an undercurrent of barbed satire. Read full review
60
CNNBrian LowryOct 23, 2020
Although the movie is visually impressive, the Chinese-American co-production suffers from a too-thin story, built upon a heavy-handed message soaked in that oldest of Disney tropes: a dead mom. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicShaena MontanariOct 21, 2020
The hyperreal CGI animated Over the Moon is fun, visually stunning and poignant, even if there are spurts of aimless psychedelic chaos along the way. Read full review
60
The GuardianCath ClarkeOct 15, 2020
It’s all very spectacular – but nothing much happens in the second half, and back on Earth, the movie’s message about loss and the power of letting go feels over-sweetened, more Disney than Disney. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangOct 14, 2020
Even its most surreal flights of fancy are tethered to a ploddingly diagrammed story whose indisputable lessons — cherish the ones you love, and also make room for more of them — are driven home with dispiriting obviousness. Read full review
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VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 9, 2020
Sometimes it’s OK for an adventure to be just an adventure, and this one gets in the way of its own assets, while pointing to the potential of future journeys from the Netflix animation team. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenOct 9, 2020
A CG-animated musical fantasy that still manages to infuse sufficient charm and genuine warmth into the inescapable familiarity. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 9, 2020
If Over the Moon launches into orbit on the strength of its specificity, much of the film is frustratingly generic for a fable so rooted in a particular sense of place, the unique traditions that come with it, and the way they help a certain little girl learn to appreciate the enduring light of her late mother’s love. Read full review
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TheWrapAlonso DuraldeOct 11, 2020
It’s great to have an animated female lead that does for science what Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” did for reading, but ultimately, Over the Moon wanes more than it waxes. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 23, 2020
This is a film that so blatantly cribs from other popular works that it never develops a personality of its own. Read full review
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The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanOct 22, 2020
Over the Moon deserves credit for launching an unflinching lesson about grief. If only it had taken a different flight path. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussOct 22, 2020
But it’s also kind of a mess. Even as the animated film piles on mismatched funny animals, uninspired songs with on-the-nose lyrics and a plot-driving motivation that appears universal but is in fact hard to buy, the project feels both generic and misguidedly overstuffed. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOct 19, 2020
Over the Moon is far more interesting than its animated contemporaries, if only for the parsing of its back story. Read full review
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