What a dumb turn to an original idea that ended with a heavy handed message.

Beginning is slow but picks up and comes in with a surprising twist. Once the twist comes in, the tone of the film changes, taking a dark turn but still enjoyable overall.

Really enjoyed this!

It doesn’t ascend to the sky. It’s not profound or great. But Vigalondo takes Colossal to all sorts of unexpected places and then brings it home, intact.

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Engaging ideas bubble up every so often in Colossal, a film that carries out magical thinking to its extreme. But the audacity of its conceit is inexorably tamed, becoming an all-too-familiar lesson on saying no.

Melissa Anderson

Village Voice

Colossal takes diminishing advantage of an amusing premise, one that seems made for satirical treatment yet is executed with an increasingly awkward semi-seriousness the characters aren’t depthed (or likable) enough to ballast.

Dennis Harvey

Variety