Ron's Gone Wrong
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: October 22, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
10
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
IGNRyan LestonOct 24, 2021
Ron’s Gone Wrong is a weird, quirky family comedy that pushes all the right buttons. Unexpectedly poignant, it asks some big questions about growing up in the age of social media. Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyOct 22, 2021
There’s a mainstream, global scope to the film, but Smith and Peter Bayham’s script isn’t without the small quirks and observations native to British comedy. Read full review
80
Screen DailyWendy IdeOct 11, 2021
Ron’s Gone Wrong transcends the familiarity of the story (there’s a thematic an overlap with Big Hero 6 and How To Train Your Dragon, to name just two) with deft writing, appealing animation and a big heart crammed into a small malfunctioning robot. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyOct 11, 2021
Peter Baynham, best-known for Borat and Alan Partridge, co-wrote this script, which offers just the right of blend of madcap farce and piercingly precise gags about social media. Read full review
80
EmpireDan JolinOct 11, 2021
An amiable, amusing story of unlikely friendship, which is as aware of what makes people tick as it is of what makes tech troubling. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleSarah JaneOct 25, 2021
Honestly, this movie is so pure. Take a couple hours out of your weekend and go feel good. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireOct 22, 2021
Ron’s Gone Wrong is an indictment of the invasive, insidious tactics of Big Tech, and of the ways we relinquish a little more of our privacy with every click and view. Read full review
75
PolygonPetrana RadulovicOct 22, 2021
Ron’s Gone Wrong could be a movie about the perils of social media, but it works better as a movie about recognizing that friendship requires work, no matter whether the connection blossoms through a high-tech device, or the old-fashioned way, in person. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Aparita BhandariOct 21, 2021
The bond between Barney and Ron is clearly the reason this movie works. Read full review
75
Washington PostPat PaduaOct 18, 2021
The debut feature from British studio Locksmith Animation, Ron’s Gone Wrong has plenty of slapstick and potty humor for kids. But adults will also be intrigued by its frequently scathing (albeit somewhat conflicted) critique of consumerism. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 11, 2021
It’s a shame that the mile-a-minute plot of “Ron’s Gone Wrong” isn’t more focused. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubCharles BramescoOct 11, 2021
There’s a system incompatibility error with the dominant bestie metaphor that leaves the film’s stance on Big Gizmo garbled. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergOct 21, 2021
As family entertainment, it’s fine. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Simran HansOct 17, 2021
The debut feature from animation studio Locksmith is cute but familiar. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 11, 2021
It’s entertaining, though composed with algorithmic precision, and it winds up suspiciously neutral about whether kids really should abandon digital enslavement in favour of real-life human friends. Read full review
58
IndieWireRafael MotamayorOct 11, 2021
Ron’s Gone Wrong has enough ideas about our current relationship with technology and social media to bring about important conversations between parents and teens that are more than just “phones are bad,” while delivering a charming and at times laugh-out-loud funny story about a boy and his robot computer friend. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDerek SmithOct 25, 2021
The film celebrates individuality even as it suggests that everyone needs their own A.I. tech to validate everything they like and think. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaOct 22, 2021
Ron’s Gone Wrong dots its primer on friendship with chase scenes and warnings about Big Tech, with only mixed success. Read full review
50
The Film StageAlistair RyderOct 21, 2021
There is nothing that ever feels particularly inspired; even when operating at its best, Ron’s Gone Wrong still cribs far too closely from other films to ever stand on its own two feet. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 15, 2021
An animated comedy of mixed messaging, thin humor and indifferent entertainment value, Ron’s Gone Wrong still has every chance of winning younger viewers over with its heart. That depends on how much affection kids can summon up for a cute robot. Read full review
50
TheWrapYolanda MachadoOct 11, 2021
Ron’s Gone Wrong offers partially realized messaging about social media while populating the story with elementary sight gags, too many overused “fish out of water” tropes, and attractive merchandise options. Read full review
40
Paste MagazineJacob OllerOct 21, 2021
At times, the throwback goofiness of Ron’s Gone Wrong can be amusingly quaint, but more often the film is humorless, sentimental tripe that couldn’t find its point if it had a dozen B-bots giving GPS directions. Read full review
38
The Associated PressMark KennedyOct 21, 2021
Ron’s Gone Wrong thinks it’s being subversive when its really being very corporate. It wastes its voice cast — including Olivia Colman, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis — and it never really connects, ending as awkwardly as a modern-day seventh-grader with a rock collection. Read full review
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