 | critic's Hulk comparison | paper |
 | a computer-generated Gumby on steroids | The New York Times |
 | "…I heard the computer-generated title character described as 'Shrek on steroids,' and I only wish he were so lifelike." | slate |
 | evokes a seething Harryhausen gargantua, or Kong himself | The Village Voice |
 | "Toss a plastic toy figure across your yard, and you'll have a good approximation of what this film's $140 million-plus budget bought its producers." | San Jose Mercury News |
 | King Kong on nuclear bananas/a bionic beach ball | The Washington Post |
 | no more believable than the animated Br'er Rabbit walking alongside Uncle Remus in Disney's 1946 "Song of the South" | Los Angeles Times |
 | right between the creepy snowman from "Jack Frost" and that strange camel-kangaroo hybrid from last summer who claimed to be Scooby-Doo/ a hairy and very angry avocado | Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) |
