Gentle enough to satisfy the wee ones but has little to offer their adult companions... full review

George is just so darn cute with his big eyes and bright smile and perpetually sunny disposition, he's pretty much impossible to resist. full review

Curious George is probably the purest family movie in years. full review

The artwork, I liked it, is faithful to the original, but to tell people my age, or someone 25, that they should see nine or ten bucks to see this movie I can't do it. full review

Molasses-sweet, plot-heavy and pandering. full review

Despite eerie narrative parallels with King Kong, the most curious thing about Curious George is how gentle it is. full review

Although the makers of Curious George decided a 21st century update was necessary, they fill the movie with enough tributes to the Reys to take a lot of the sting away. full review

When children are so into a movie that they don't make a peep or kick the back of your theater seat, it is a success.

This is an adaptation that is absolutely faithful to the child's-eye-view books, down to the name of the ship that brings George from Africa -- the H.A. Rey. full review

Despite 16 years in development and drafts by many prominent Hollywood screenwriters, the finished product (credited to O'Callaghan and Mike Webb) feels undeveloped, like a 10-minute TV cartoon stretched to barely feature length.

Skip the movie altogether, and buy one of the books, instead. full review

Visually, the movie benefits from a charming animation style, a traditional 2-D approach layered with shadows and backlit halos. But it benefits most from George, still worming his way into people's hearts. full review

The biggest surprise of Curious George is how it keeps consistently entertaining at a kids' level. full review

Artful simplicity may be an impossible quality in a modern children's movie, so Curious George opts instead for mayhem under a blanket of sweetness. The little ones understand. full review

It's pretty elementary. full review

As simple, friendly, kid-appropriate and nontoxic as any major motion picmerchtainment franchise could ever hope to be. full review

If you count yourself among the curious, spend an afternoon with George. full review

If these virtues sound passive, it's because the movie is passive, not to mention overplotted and misfocused. full review

The movie, particularly the endearing George, should appeal to young children, and the humor should elicit a few chuckles among their parents as well. full review

The makers of Curious George have figured out how to make an innocent cartoon that will amuse knee-nuzzlers without hitting adults like a liter of chloroform. full review