still one of the greatest

These days too many children's movies are infected by the virus of Winning, as if kids are nothing more than underage pro athletes, and the values of Vince Lombardi prevail: It's not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose. This is a movie that breaks with that tradition, that allows its kids to be kids, that shows them in the insular world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult domains and values.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

A scruffy underdog yarn that will appeal not only to kids but also to their thirty- or fortysomething parents.

Duane Byrge

The Hollywood Reporter