Storks
Warner Bros. | Release Date: September 23, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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14
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Andrew ParkerSep 22, 2016
Every joke here hits its target, and while many of them will soar over the heads of youngsters, it will still send everyone home happy and satisfied. Read full review
85
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 20, 2016
Storks continually surprises with characters who are more complicated than we might expect in a kid’s animated movie, and a refusal to hit every single pre-programmed plot beat. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinOct 13, 2016
A densely funny, lovingly orchestrated hour and a half of amiable chaos. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenSep 20, 2016
Co-directors Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland deliver big time with Storks, a fittingly buoyant, delightfully madcap animated romp. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittSep 23, 2016
Good news, parents: Storks is bound to entertain you and your little ones. Bad news: Get ready to answer a lot more awkward questions about where babies come from. Read full review
75
The PlaylistWill AshtonSep 22, 2016
Likable, heartfelt and sweet in all the right places, Stoller and co-director Doug Sweetland have put together a charming surprise that’s as joyful and friendly as it is funny and well-meaning. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireSep 22, 2016
Zippy and zany, cute and cuddly, Storks manages to balance wild humor with winning heart—for the most part. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSep 22, 2016
Like Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s stellar “The Lego Movie,” the filmmakers work with the confidence that if a joke fails, the one that follows a few seconds later will redeem the scene. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 22, 2016
The result is a story that’s awfully scattered thematically, but one with such inventive wit and screwball-quick pacing that issues like spongy motivation hardly seem to matter. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyDevan CogganSep 20, 2016
There’s a delightfully madcap pace to Storks, and most of the rapid-fire jokes land. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangSep 22, 2016
Like any pleasant surprise, this funny, frenetic, cheerfully nonsensical movie makes its own rules and gives you a few things that you weren’t, well, expecting. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 21, 2016
It's occasional fun, but that's about all, folks. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshSep 22, 2016
Storks is at times cacophonous and overly busy, and the animation tends toward the goofily humorous rather than the spectacular. However, Stoller manages to pull off a third act and emotional resolution that's genuinely moving. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 20, 2016
It’s not as start-to-finish funny as Warner Animation’s “Lego Movie”, and that also goes for the quirky Lego cartoon short — basically the chicken-botched filming of the opening credits to a martial arts movie...But there’s wit, warmth and invention here, enough to make you hopeful for a Warner Animation future. Read full review
60
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlSep 28, 2016
In between Storks' bumptious best and worst are its uncertain quiet patches. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfSep 23, 2016
Apart from one muted action sequence in which the participants try not to wake a sleeping bundle of joy (“Put that baby down,” one of them demands, and the order is obeyed, with a little tucking in), there’s scarce humor here for adults to relish. And Samberg’s characteristic snark has been sanded down to a nub. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerSep 21, 2016
This is a lot of plot for a movie that endeavors primarily to entertain children, though the excess is more likely to give adults a headache. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekSep 24, 2016
As with most animated films today, there’s lots of boring bromides about “family” and “belonging” that you have to suffer through to get to the good stuff. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniSep 22, 2016
Storks feels way too much like a belabored and mediocre SNL sketch. Each character has some neurotic tic or crazy fixation, which they expound upon in monologues that feel like material for a stand-up act or a sitcom. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSep 22, 2016
This film, directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, is a harmless enough way to occupy a youngster for an hour and a half. It’s just not especially rich in extraordinary characters or moments. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEric HendersonSep 22, 2016
Maybe it's not the worst thing in the world that Storks doesn't take many cues from Pixar's tear-jerking playbook. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSep 22, 2016
Storks delivers its package, but it’s a bundle of just-okay, not joy. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisSep 21, 2016
Animated films have trended toward a perceptive intelligence in the past few years, but Storks wades in shallow waters most of the time. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 20, 2016
In Storks, the jokes fall flat, but the pace is relentless, and those two things seem somehow intertwined, as if the filmmakers had convinced themselves that comedy that whips by fast enough won’t go thud. Read full review
50
IndieWireEric KohnSep 20, 2016
Neither wacky enough to work as pure punchline, nor smart enough to bend its looniness into something more substantial, Storks views the world with the same confused outlook of its wide-eyed infants. Read full review
40
EmpireOlly RichardsOct 17, 2016
Perhaps it’s fitting that this story about babies has the attention span and grasp of logic of a newborn. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghSep 22, 2016
Storks is charmless with rote obligation. This is a kid’s film for hire, with none of the creativity, emotion and design that elevate the genre to art, or even simply a fun time at the movies. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsRaakhee MirchandaniSep 21, 2016
The jokes in Warner Bros.'s new animated flick mostly fall flat, the characters are largely unlovable and the simplistic plot expects more from its audience than it gives. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoSep 20, 2016
Storks is momentarily funny when it’s not boorishly and exhaustively begging for your attention. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithSep 22, 2016
Less enjoyable than making a baby but more enjoyable than raising one, the animated feature Storks delivers a bouncing bundle of blah. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternSep 22, 2016
The whole movie seems to be on fast-forward, with crushingly brainless dialogue, hollow imagery and no way of slowing down the febrile action or making sense of the chaotic plot. Read full review
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