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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoMonster Trucks is a weird, wacky ride that's made better by its sense of good-natured, juvenile fun (for the most part).
- 60Total FilmNeil SmithTotal FilmNeil SmithRob Lowe provides colour as a Southern-accented sleazeball, while the Free Willy finale has enough vehicular mayhem to excuse its dodgy FX.
- 40EmpireHelen O'HaraEmpireHelen O'HaraObjectively ridiculous but mostly fun, this is better than you could have predicted given the title but squarely aimed at a young and undiscerning audience.
- 40VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeLike it sounds, Monster Trucks is a lame kids’ movie reverse-engineered from a worse pun.
- 40The GuardianMike McCahillThe GuardianMike McCahillIt has tentacles and hot wheels, yes, but not the legs or bright ideas to sustain itself.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenWhile Wedge’s animation background comes in handy during some inventive chase sequences (shot in rural British Columbia), Monster Trucks is otherwise a clunky nonstarter.
- 40Time OutTom HuddlestonTime OutTom HuddlestonWhile Monster Trucks may be bizarre, haphazard and deeply silly, hey, it’s a movie about monsters that live in trucks. It was never going to be Citizen Kane.
- 38The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenThe Seattle TimesSoren AndersenThe main monster communicates in noises that sound like belches. Appropriate for a picture that’s the equivalent of a cinematic burp: gassy and inconsequential.
- 33IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThe scenes where Creech and co are outracing the Terravex death squads are playful and inventive enough to provide a glimpse of what this movie could have been if it weren’t so remarkably bad in most other respects.