"A charming throwback to adventure movies of the '80s... complete with original puppetry that reportedly contains not an ounce of CGI manipulation... It feels like a family film made by flesh-and-blood people in an era when computers are doing so much of the work".

"Ochi oozes wonder shot after shot, in part from the eye-popping environments produced through a combination of Evan Prosofsky’s lambent cinematography and the use of matte paintings... [it] prompts one to think, 'How did they do that?' only to be even more incredulous when realizing the techniques employed. That's film sorcery."