Tron Legacy: Press reviews

'It is often beautiful to look at, and could come to represent the fashion tropes of its era as faithfully as its predecessor did. And the silliness somehow adds to the enjoyment rather than detracting from it. It's the best kind of bonkers.'

'A triumph of art direction, sound design and Gallic phat beats, but could do with a script upgrade and fun.exe patch.'

'This reboot may not be as revolutionary as it thinks, but it's definitely worth a second glance.'

'Four years in production and costing $200m, the movie is indubitably on the cutting edge technically. But dramatically it's a solemn mishmash of The Wizard of Oz, 2001, Star Wars and Blade Runner.'

'Appropriately, the sequel suffers from almost the same problems as the original: while it's visually dazzling (particularly in 3D), thematically intriguing and fronted by the single coolest man in the universe, it's also empty, derivative and rather directionless.'

'For the first time since Avatar, Tron Legacy uses the technology to make us experience something new and special again...just gorgeous to gawp at.'

'There's more than a touch of Zeus in Kevin's white beard and Olympian digs, but, much like Icarus, no one in Tron: Legacy gets to soar too high'

'If you like Daft Punk, you might find Tron Legacy a tiptop extended music video. Otherwise, under-12s only. Or mental equivalent thereof.'

'for all its expensive effects, is far less contemporary than the original 30 years ago.'

'The battle scenes are enjoyable but over all too quickly, forced to make way for yet more IT chatter. Daft Punk's electronic soundtrack is too vibrant for the film it accompanies.'

'There's interesting stuff in this new Tron, particularly some subversive jabs at the regressive solipsism of computer games. But there's plenty that's very dull and laborious, too.'

'The CGI visuals are too raucous and frantic to make sense of, and the last half-hour is a bore-a-thon of racing jets and filial bonding, rendered as affectless as a video game – which is perhaps where they ought to have left it.'

'A belated and profoundly unnecessary sequel to 1982's Tron. Overblown, overlong and an utter waste of money and time, it is a super-catastrophic Disney folly aimed at sad geeks.'