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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyChristian HolubEntertainment WeeklyChristian HolubIt’s a proud piece of family entertainment with a good heart, an eye for inventive action, and a delightfully wacky sense of humor.
- 67IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandWhile the beats are familiar and even a film about animated pigeons can’t quite break out of the tropes that have long defined the spy film genre, it’s the kind of sweetly demented late-December diversion that should entertain plenty of holiday-weary families.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreSmith’s easy way with a joke keeps the tone light, and for all the mayhem, this is still pretty fluffy and cute. It’s not “The Incredibles,” but it’s a reasonable and quite amusing facsimile.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawAs with so many family animations right now, I felt that the script stays on the safe side, with fewer smart lines and ironic gags than I might have wished for, but this is a good-natured entertainment.
- 58The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerSpies In Disguise isn’t clever enough to reconcile the disingenuousness of setting off a litany of pointless explosions and battles before clarifying that this stuff is bad, actually.
- 50TheWrapCarlos AguilarTheWrapCarlos AguilarAs unsatisfying as Spies in Disguise is because of its disregard for original design and the insufferable nods to disposable trends, its role as counterprogramming to toxic masculinity — turning ruthless spies into sensible beings with warmth as a moral compass — makes it ephemerally laudable.
- 50Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonNeither the humour nor the script is particularly sharp, although younger viewers may not mind the slapstick simplicity.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAntic and frantic, Spies is very much a one-joke affair, which is fine for a short but woefully insufficient for a 101-minute feature.
- 40VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe trouble with a film like Spies in Disguise isn’t that it’s less than sparklingly animated but that as technically bravura as it is, there is never anything at stake.