 Lou Lumenick of the "New York Post" gave the film one out of four stars, saying "If Lucasfilm had bought Disney instead of the other way around, the smash hit "Frozen" might have turned out like "Strange Magic", a jaw-droppingly terrible animated musical that mismatches George Lucas’ inane story about a pair of fairy princesses to an oddball selection of the "Star Wars" creator's favorite pop tunes.