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The direction is different, but appropriate.

Balance is the thing and Stanton and MacLane know when to use a well-timed piece of slapstick or visual gag to cut through sentiment.

The script is full of witty gems, while still remaining rooted in reality.

An intriguing and genuinely inventive piece of cinema of the sort which doesn't come along very often.

Predictable popcorn pap - this feels exactly like the holiday filler that it is.

A simple, delicate comedy .

There's nothing stale, nor been-there about this animated pooch's fizzy brainstorms

Sack the writers, disarm the director and banish the gatecrashers. The Muppets aren't The Muppets anymore

The end product of a long and dismal trend in American indies, where the effort to create art just like the art one saw last week has produced a formula that is exponentially recursive.

The plot pigs out on possibilities but the characters are great and if you can keep up with the speed of events you won't be disappointed.