Critical Response
The film received mixed reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 50% based on 114 reviews. On Metacritic it scored 53% based on reviews from 30 critics.
Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3 1/2 stars out of 4, praising it as "the best family film so far this year" (April 9, 2004).
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