Name : Dana Rose Falcone / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The combination of Home's layered message, fun score, and clever comedy make it a colorful choice for moviegoers of any age.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Aggressive and cynical approach to children's entertainment, pummeling viewers with mechanical-looking action sequences (which suggest video game demos), unfunny one-liners, and overly loud pop songs and sound effects.

Name : Sandie Angulo Chen / Alias : Washington Post
This kiddie sci-fi adaptation doesn't quite live up to its evocative title.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
From a creative standpoint, this is the studio's least exciting feature yet - hardly its worst, execution-wise, but entirely lacking in the risk-taking spirit that has spawned such successful franchises as "Shrek," "Kung Fu Panda" and "Dragon."

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
A surprisingly moving tale of friendship and family, dressed up as an adorably frivolous sci-fi comedy.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
Heartwarming and harmless? Sure, why not. But it's also numbing in its simplicity and often rather annoying.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
There may be no place like home, but there are a lot of places like Home, an animated adventure about the unlikely friendship between a lonely girl and an alien misfit that can't help but feel familiar.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
The film moves quickly and keeps the jokes coming, which only means that "Home" would rather keep young viewers occupied than give them something to think about.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When we scratch beneath the sugary surface, there's something tart inside that's difficult to digest.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Key characters are admirably diverse, but the fast-paced tale is thoroughly predictable.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
It works moderately well thanks largely to the voice talents of Jim Parsons and, to a lesser extent, Steve Martin. Two droll dudes who put a fair share of funny into this animated picture.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
The bland "Home" is a crash pad at best.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
A charming concoction with positive messages for younger children about conquering fears, understanding outsiders and knowing yourself.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Aside from Parsons' initially amusingly mangled Yoda-like English, which gets a tad repetitive, Home doesn't stand out as fresh or particularly funny.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
Director Tim Johnson ("Over the Hedge") and his animators can't maintain this level of freshness throughout, but that's where Parsons and his goofy charm take over.

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
Lazy gags, and it's been done better elsewhere.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Tension is one of "Home's" biggest issues. There just isn't nearly enough of it. Story is another. Even a kids' movie needs more complexity and more invention.

Name : Geoff Pevere / Alias : Globe and Mail
A big, fat happy meal of a movie .

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Inoffensive but flavourless, and crammed with familiar elements from better movies like Lilo and Stitch , Toy Story and Despicable Me .

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I brought a couple of my kids, who liked it fine and found the friendship at the center rather affecting.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Anyone over 10 will see the plot twists a mile away. Kids will probably enjoy the goofy Boovs, the rainbows of colors and the music. Call me a traditionalist, but I still say the world was a better place before those darn Boovs invaded.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : TheWrap
As animated sci-fi for small fry, it's a success whose modest but well-executed ambitions are no small part of its charm.

Name : Nancy Churnin / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Maybe it's because kids sometimes feel like aliens in a grown-up world, but from E.T. and Elliott to Lilo and Stitch, pairing a child with a creature from outer space can prove to be a winning combination.

Name : Maricar Estrella / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Tim Johnson ( Antz) has capitalized on DreamWorks' proprietary animation platform, Apollo to create a rich, intricate setting.But the technology doesn't save the film from falling flat on other levels.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
Like the timorous Boov, "Home" has little interest in risk-taking.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
The Gummi-colored animation is imaginative, but director Tim Johnson's ho-hum 3D cartoon remains strictly 1D.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
DreamWorks movies are often about outsiders learning that they don't have to fit in, a lesson the filmmakers may not have absorbed themselves.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
An earnest exercise that falls flat, despite the best of intentions.

Name : Peter Hartlaub / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
By the time the big battle happens at the end, CGI has rendered the Earth bleak and unrecognizable; like it's not worth saving.

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit.

Name : Carol Buckland / Alias : CNN.com
Splendidly cheesy entertainment.

Name : David Ansen / Alias : Newsweek
If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd probably think it was the coolest movie going.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The results are predictably predictable if rarely entertainingly risible, with swaths of exposition and dialogue that sounds like ads ("one people, one world").

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The first "Independence Day" had the gratifying slap of good pop cinema, harmless and weightless; the follow-up is twice as big and half as fun.

Name : Jonathan Rosenbaum / Alias : Chicago Reader
The earnestness, the effects, and the notion of a whole world forgetting its differences to defeat a common foe carry a certain charm.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
It's a non-movie, an insult to the blockbuster genre, and should stand only as a perfect example of Hollywood's more glaring deficiencies as an industry.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The film is so cluttered with characters, exposition and space junk, thickly lacquered with 3D, it's like a party pinata waiting to burst open - but inside are rocks, not toys.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
From the metallic shell of the 1996 smash "Independence Day," director Roland Emmerich has pulled a seriously lousy sequel, dripping with alien goo and incoherence.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
"Independence Day: Resurgence" delivers swiftly and generously when it comes to the goods most viewers will have come for - the time-honored joys of blowing stuff up, in set pieces that escalate dizzyingly in size and context.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
Want to see things blow up good? Independence Day: Resurgence really delivers. However, if you like a bit of story to go with all those explosions - forget it.

Name : Jason Solomons / Alias : TheWrap
While it would be foolish to say Independence Day: Resurgence lacks spectacle, scene after scene of the stuff becomes repetitive due to its victimless violence. It feels like no one ever gets hurt, despite the destruction of half the planet.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
You can forgive Independence Day: Resurgence for being ridiculous - its predecessor was too. But you can't forgive it for being boring.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
The plot is a big jumble of story lines, nonsense science talk and lots of "in '96" references. Speaking of '96, there's nothing even remotely as thrilling or memorable as the first here.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
The first "Independence Day'' was a lot of fun, with a great lines and cutting-edge special effects. It was much imitated, so the sequel plays like a faded, eighth-generation copy with a cast that's shooting blanks when it comes to humor.

Name : Leslie Felperin / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The main thing consumers will be looking for from Resurgence is bang-for-buck entertainment, and that it delivers reasonably successfully.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
I didn't like "Independence Day: Resurgence." You probably won't either.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Resurgence ends up falling victim to its attempts to differentiate itself while remaining completely derivative.

Name : Brian Lowry / Alias : CNN.com
Moreover, the movie keeps announcing over and over exactly how much time is left before the world gets destroyed. In practical terms, that simply reminds the audience that this two-hour exercise feels like a pretty long sit, despite its frenetic pacing.

Name : Rita Kempley / Alias : Washington Post
Maybe the moviemakers' mission was to boldly go where everyone in Hollywood has gone before: the bank.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
The temptation is there to say that Independence Day: Resurgence tarnishes the image of its predecessor but the original Independence Day wasn't all that good to begin with.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Variety
As unavoidably entertaining as it is hopelessly cornball.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Look, this isn't supposed to be Serious Cinema. I get that. I also know that there is a cinematic place for over-the-top action. I also know that it doesn't have to be stupid, because I saw "Mad Max: Fury Road."

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Well that was unnecessary.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
Returning director Roland Emmerich's film checks all the appropriate boxes - wanton destruction, malevolent aliens, B-movie dialogue, rampant silliness - but the old charm just isn't there anymore.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Disposable and shockingly inept.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
The only thing resurgent in this humorless alien mess is Hollywood's passion to charge us more and deliver less.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
An insanely OTT sequel to the already-ludicrous-enough alien invasion smash.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
"IDR" moves right along at the rapid clip essential for a story whose general outline is known from the get-go. What actually happens on screen is less important than that it unfolds really, really fast.

Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
I remember sitting in the theater watching the first Independence Day as a kid, mouth agape at what the movies could do. I'm a little more cynical at this point.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
It's just dull and hollow-a massive waste of time and money.