Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Monkey Kingdom is delightful, and its swinging and vaulting best any stuntwork you'll see in this year's summer blockbusters .

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
"Monkey Kingdom" clocks in at a very digestible 82 minutes and doesn't overstay its welcome. It doesn't monkey around - that's left to the film's subjects, who are more than happy to oblige.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
The cheekiest, funniest, and most purely entertaining entry in the Disneynature series.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Monkeys.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
An enjoyable documentary, with some painless lessons. And a good heart, too .

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
You're likely to laugh and learn in equal measure-and so will your little ones.

Name : Stephen Farber / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The film should hit the sweet spot for family audiences.

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
Although its chief asset is its inherently entertaining subject matter, "Monkey Kingdom" does far more than just let the cameras roll: It teases a compelling drama out of one monkey tribe's complicated social hierarchy .

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
This may be an unabashed, Disneyfied version of nature. But it's also fun, touching, and expertly assembled.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
As much fun as a tree full of toque macaques, Monkey Kingdom is arguably the most entertaining of Disneynature's eight features.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
You know how nature docs work. You forgive the hoked-up comic relief . and tasteful allusions to death and dying and procreation because the tight shots of Maya's lil' Kip are so durn cuuuuute.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
A populist take on simian society and alpha leadership leads to an entertaining look at caste systems in the animal kingdom.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Stick around for the credits to find out how pivotal scenes were shot for this worthy addition to Disney's long tradition of nature family films.

Name : Janice Page / Alias : Boston Globe
It's been clear for awhile now that Tina Fey rules. "Monkey Kingdom" is just the latest entertainment to benefit.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
The story of the colony's exile and return feels like a dull sermon, but the animals themselves, with their expressive faces and Moe Howard hairdos, can switch from slapstick to pathos faster than Charlie Chaplin.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The film offers a valuable life lesson in the powers of determination and timing, but most of all it's darned entertaining.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
You couldn't do much better than "Monkey Kingdom" to get kids invested in learning about, and protecting, the natural world.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
It's hard to imagine what message children will take away from this film other than that monkeys are just like characters in a fictional Disney movie, which they are not.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Monkey Kingdom" tugs our heartstrings to the top of the trees. With a lot of patience, and perhaps a little trickery, directors Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill have produced a simian "Cinderella."

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
If you don't love monkeys already - and really, we all should - then "Monkey Kingdom" will swing you in the right direction.