Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
An enjoyable documentary, with some painless lessons. And a good heart, too .

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
Although its chief asset is its inherently entertaining subject matter, "Monkey Kingdom" does far more than just let the cameras roll: It teases a compelling drama out of one monkey tribe's complicated social hierarchy .

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Monkey Kingdom" tugs our heartstrings to the top of the trees. With a lot of patience, and perhaps a little trickery, directors Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill have produced a simian "Cinderella."

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
If you don't love monkeys already - and really, we all should - then "Monkey Kingdom" will swing you in the right direction.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
"Monkey Kingdom" clocks in at a very digestible 82 minutes and doesn't overstay its welcome. It doesn't monkey around - that's left to the film's subjects, who are more than happy to oblige.

Name : Stephen Farber / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The film should hit the sweet spot for family audiences.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Stick around for the credits to find out how pivotal scenes were shot for this worthy addition to Disney's long tradition of nature family films.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Monkeys.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
As much fun as a tree full of toque macaques, Monkey Kingdom is arguably the most entertaining of Disneynature's eight features.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
You know how nature docs work. You forgive the hoked-up comic relief . and tasteful allusions to death and dying and procreation because the tight shots of Maya's lil' Kip are so durn cuuuuute.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
The story of the colony's exile and return feels like a dull sermon, but the animals themselves, with their expressive faces and Moe Howard hairdos, can switch from slapstick to pathos faster than Charlie Chaplin.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
This may be an unabashed, Disneyfied version of nature. But it's also fun, touching, and expertly assembled.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The film offers a valuable life lesson in the powers of determination and timing, but most of all it's darned entertaining.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Monkey Kingdom is delightful, and its swinging and vaulting best any stuntwork you'll see in this year's summer blockbusters .

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
A populist take on simian society and alpha leadership leads to an entertaining look at caste systems in the animal kingdom.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
You're likely to laugh and learn in equal measure-and so will your little ones.

Name : Janice Page / Alias : Boston Globe
It's been clear for awhile now that Tina Fey rules. "Monkey Kingdom" is just the latest entertainment to benefit.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
You couldn't do much better than "Monkey Kingdom" to get kids invested in learning about, and protecting, the natural world.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
The cheekiest, funniest, and most purely entertaining entry in the Disneynature series.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
It's hard to imagine what message children will take away from this film other than that monkeys are just like characters in a fictional Disney movie, which they are not.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Strip "Tomorrowland" down to its essentials, and you get an ending out of "I'd like to teach the world to sing" and a moral which boils down to: Just be positive, OK? So OK. I'm positive "Tomorrowland" was a disappointment.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
For all of its vaulting ambition, its sumptuous eye-feasts and its leapings back and forth in space and time, "Tomorrowland" never comes together as coherent drama in the here and now.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, a noble failure about trying to succeed, is written and directed with such open-hearted optimism that you cheer it on even as it stumbles.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
"Tomorrowland" delivers a loud and clear message of hope for humanity, which is a welcome thing to hear at any point in time.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
Maybe the ultimate goal of "Tomorrowland" remains obscure because once you know where the story is headed, you realize it's a familiar tale. The movie can conjure up futuristic images, but the story is nothing we haven't seen before.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
All hands on both sides of the camera do outstanding work.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
It's important to note that "Tomorrowland" is not disappointing in the usual way. It's not another glib, phoned-in piece of franchise mediocrity but rather a work of evident passion and conviction. What it isn't is in any way convincing or enchanting.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
"Tomorrowland" is a globe-trotting, time-traveling caper whose giddy visual whimsies and exuberant cartoon violence are undermined by a coy mystery that stretches as long as the line for "Space Mountain" on a hot summer day.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
As much as you wish it were otherwise, "Tomorrowland" works in only fits and starts.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
A well-oiled machine of visuals, and yet a wobbling rattletrap of storytelling, the sci-fi fantasy "Tomorrowland" is an unwieldy clunker driven into the ditch at full speed.

Name : Christopher Borrelli / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Let me just say I mostly admired "Tomorrowland" and think Brad Bird is the kind of Disney we need right now.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
The film is ambitious, challenging the audience to keep up. That's a plus, mostly.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
When it puts down its copy of 'Political Philosophy for Dummies' and focuses on character and action, 'Tomorrowland' is a blast.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Brad Bird presents a gorgeously wrought, hopeful future vision in Tomorrowland, infusing the family film with enough entertaining action and retro-themed whiz bang to forgive an awkward opening and third-act weakness.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Tomorrowland is the most enchanting reactionary cultural diatribe ever made. It's so smart, so winsome, so utterly rejuvenating that you'll have to wait until your eyes have dried and your buzz has worn off before you can begin to argue with it.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Though it's made with great energy and inventiveness, there's something ultimately muddy about "Tomorrowland"; it's as if director Brad Bird got so caught up in the sets and effects and whooshing editing that the story somehow slipped away.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
Noble intentions don't always net smashing results, and such is the case with the disappointing "Tomorrowland" .

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
The film never adds up to the sum of its parts, effectively a two-hour trailer for a movie I'd still be interested in seeing.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Despite a first hour that sometimes seems as if the movie itself will never arrive anywhere, hold on. The future is bright.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Unlikely to be remembered in decades to come - or even in months to come, once the next teenage dystopian fantasy inserts itself into movie houses.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
"Tomorrowland" wears its big movie heart on its sleeve, which is to its advantage.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Not even a baby Einstein could follow this nonsensical plot, and even if your kids stay awake, the payoff is paltry.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
Bird has made a film that every child should see. And if his $190 million dream flops, he'll be asking the same question as his movie: When did it become uncool to care?

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
For all its initial narrative intrigue and visual splendor, winds up feeling like a hollow, hucksterish Trojan horse of a movie .

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Rapturous on a scene-by-scene basis and nearly incoherent when taken as a whole, the movie is idealistic and deranged, inspirational and very, very conflicted.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Tomorrowland ultimately dispenses with subtlety altogether and clubs viewers over the head with its It's a Small World After All message (yes, this is a Disney film). Still, there's much to admire.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Bird stages the PG mayhem with his usual grasp of dimension and space, his gift for action that's timed like physical comedy. He keeps the whole thing moving, even when it begins to feel bogged down by preachiness and sci-fi exposition.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
This is the first major disappointment of the summer movie season. (Box office aside, I wasn't really expecting "Pitch Perfect 2" to be the "Godfather 2" of a cappella musicals.)