From comedic re-imaginings and aims to improve ambitious failures, to straight imitations and inspired spin - offs, these remakes will be hoping to go the way of War for the Planet of the Apes, and not the way of TRON Legacy or Total Recall. (screenrant.com)
Sure its beautifully polished from an aesthetics stand point, with rich and beautiful production design by Scott Chambliss, but little else to grab onto in terms of a script or just a normal comfort adventure movie, Bird's film turns out to be his most ambitious failure. (awardscircuit.com)
It's plenty ambitious, but an ambitious failure, where the more you make like Greg and try to think about what the characters are thinking, the more unbearable most of it becomes. (metacritic.com)