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- 04:02 PM, Mar 28
this dutifully educational children's story looks and feels like a Disney Channel movieby Inkoo Kang [The Wrap ]
the movie is downright laughable when it isn't merely unpleasantReview rate : D by Jason Clark [Entertainment Weekly ]
overly familiar plot points, cartoon villains, halfhearted camera work, an overbearing score and an insulting lack of attention to detailby Barbara VanDenburgh [Arizona Republic ]
it's not a good kids flick, since the level of violence - off the battlefield - is excessive. (In the desert, that violence is serious but morally sure.) And the movie's fatally distracted by its B-movie villainsby Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]
is less mad than traumatizedby Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]
dogged by plot holes and one-dimensional characters, there will doubtless be audiences that will lap up Max anywayby Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]
a post-9/11 "Benji," enlivened by a solid cast and slightly edgy actionby Rafer Guzman [Newsday ]