Battle for Terra has a nifty twist of a premise—it’s an alien movie in which humans are the evil invaders—but critics are split on how well it works. Here’s what they’re saying:
- It’s a “work of art,” writes John Anderson in Variety, as “original and convincing a feature as the better Japanese animes.” Animation acolytes will love it, but beware: this isn’t at all sugar-coated, and won’t be “the feel good movie of 2009.”