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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
What does register at every turn is a vibrant sense of time and place that pulls us into Hardy's bygone world even when the drama falters.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Nicely served on both sides of the camera, this is a concise and involving rendition of the story of a resilient young woman who comes into property in Victorian England's West Country and is courted by three suitors, all of whom have pluses and minuses.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A comedown from the high of "Fast Five," but the physics-be-damned stuntwork and girl-on-girl beatdowns keep this series the guiltiest of pleasures.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
It pretty much goes without saying that the script by Chris Morgan, who penned most of the previous installments, is achingly stupid and beyond ludicrous.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
If Fast & Furious 6 were any dumber, the script would have been written in crayon . [But] in terms of sheer action adrenaline, it may be the best film of the franchise.

Name : David Hiltbrand / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The plot and dialogue are still stilted and stupid, but that only proves that Justin Lin, who has directed the last four F & Fs, has his priorities straight.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
A satisfying thrill ride, at least on a par with the earlier installments.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
Some of the action sequences are insane. No, really. Absurd, impossible, physics defying, triage-required stuff. No matter. That's the foolish rush of a franchise that must go faster and faster and furiouser and furiouser.

Name : Adam Nayman / Alias : Globe and Mail
That the movie is so indifferently written shouldn't really be a surprise. The dialogue is just there to mark time between the set pieces, and it's nice to report that Lin has outdone himself in that department.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
For my money, "Furious 6'' is more fun than "Skyfall''' and a lot more fun than the deadly dull "Star Trek Into Darkness,'' both of which ask you to take their silly plots way too seriously.

Name : Christopher Borrelli / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Sustains its joyful, unpretentious ridiculousness so perfectly that I secretly hoped the "6" meant "hours long".

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Let's just cut to another car chase, OK? That's what this franchise knows how to do, and if that's the kind of popcorn fun you're looking for, "F&F 6" has the goods.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
For their own part, Vin Diesel and the "F&F" handlers seem eager to assert how they've molded a series of installments into, yep, a saga, complete with expansive, twisty continuity.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
How you feel about "Fast & Furious 6" is a matter of perspective.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
It's dumb fun - nothing more, nothing less.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Lin and his team do an extraordinary job of staging the ever-escalating action sequences, up to a jaw-on-the-floor finale involving various four-wheel vehicles in and around a cargo plane that's trying to take off.

Name : Ian Buckwalter / Alias : The Atlantic
Furious Six continues on in the same vein as its predecessor, and may just be my favorite of the lot.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
True, the movie doesn't know when or how to put the brakes on. It does, however, understand precisely what it is.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Nothing classic here, except the vehicles. But if you're looking for revved-up cars, trucks, tanks and tunnel racing, F&F6 is King Kong on wheels.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
[The action is] glorious while it lasts, but then the film goes back to figuring out how to keep its oversized vessel from taking on water. And that's more hard work than it's worth.

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
Furious 6 is even cooler and more aerodynamically delirious than its predecessor, if such a thing is even theoretically possible.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
Faithful fans and passersby alike should be more than pleased by this superior piece of classical action craftsmanship.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Here's a movie that could easily have been dialogue-free. And probably would have been better for it.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : Hearst Newspapers
Sometimes Fast & Furious 6 is engrossing, sometimes absurd, and some of the action is so outlandish it makes the audience laugh. But whatever it is, it's always some variety of fun.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Richard Roeper.com
'Fast and Furious 6' is the fastest, funniest and most outlandishly entertaining chapter yet. I'm not kidding, I kinda loved this insanely stupid movie.

Name : Laremy Legel / Alias : Film.com
Has something for everyone, so long as everyone wants their action supercharged.

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
Happily, amid all the noise, the races - there's a terrific one through the streets of downtown London - the crashes and the outlandish stunts, there is some humor, and it's very welcome.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The whole thing becomes no different than a six-year-old knocking his toys together and making noises.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Everyone involved at last seems to understand that the mode here is comic. Previous entries suffered from self-important glumness that gummed up the fun whenever the cars weren't racing.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
A borderline ridiculous, over-the-top demolition derby that also happens to be a perfectly constructed low-IQ blast.

Name : Derek Adams / Alias : Time Out
With its puerile dialogue, daft performances, flat comic repartee and ear-rupturingly loud sound levels, the experience of watching 'Fast & Furious 6' is like listening to death metal pour out of 500-watt speakers while being strapped to a pneumatic drill.

Name : Drew Hunt / Alias : Chicago Reader
[Director Justin Lin] manages to imbue the material with Hawksian notions of masculinity, group dynamics, and moral authority even as he preserves the franchise's multicultural milieu and gleefully exaggerated action sequences.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Exists purely to showcase how idiotically over-the-top action sequences can become when annoyances like gravity are tossed to the side.

Name : Tom Charity / Alias : CNN.com
Ludicrous, but undeniably fun and surprisingly affectionate, this is really all you could ask of a car crash movie, and more.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
Perhaps the most annoying thing about the movie: The final scene sets up yet another sequel.

Name : Jen Chaney / Alias : Washington Post
Fast & Furious 6 is much like the other Fast & Furious films. Which is to say it does its thing pretty well.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
Just as the plot threatens to run out of gas, Lin rescues the film with a spate of vastly ridiculous and therefore enjoyable set-pieces, most of which involve means of conveyance designed to make the cars look puny.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's a ripsnorting carmageddon that stylizes automotive annihilation the way John Woo used to choreograph death and destruction with guns and explosions.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
Lin understands this track inside and out, backwards and forwards - four directions out of countless others in which he spins us.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
There's a Road Runneresque sense of madness that's undeniably infectious. If only it was played off characters who had some sense of reality, who weren't such obvious constructions, and who spoke fewer leaden lines.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
This new entry will only add mightily to the good fortunes of Universal's biggest franchise; no matter how silly and outlandish the action gets - and it does become ridiculous - it also delivers the goods its audience expects.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out New York
Most of the stunts are digital and the pleasures are video-game-stupid.