The let's-travel-through-the-TV-screen sequence was better in Fat Albert.
– Ed Park,
Village Voice,
22 Mar 2005
rotten:
Too many loose ends.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
24 Mar 2005
fresh:
May not be a masterpiece, but it has its share of thoughtful little angles.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
9 Apr 2005
rotten:
A perplexing compound of the silly and the glum.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
9 Apr 2005
rotten:
It is like an exercise in cinema mechanics: Images, music, photography and mood conspire to create a sense of danger, even though at any given moment we cannot possibly explain the rules under which that danger might manifest itself.