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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken grossed $15.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $26.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $42.4 million. It was the lowest-grossing film from DreamWorks Animation following Spirit Untamed (2021), which grossed $42.7 million during its theatrical run and was also a box-office disappointment, with projections of an $80 million loss for Universal Pictures.[3][4][6]

In the United States and Canada, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken was released alongside Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and was projected to gross $4–8 million from 3,400 theatres in its opening weekend.[2][25] The film made $2.3 million on its first day, including $725,000 from Thursday night previews.[26] The film debuted with $5.5 million, becoming DreamWorks Animation's lowest-grossing opening weekend of any of their feature films to date. The film's sixth place finish also made it the studio's lowest-ranking three-day opening weekend, tying Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas from 2003. Several publications, including TheWrap, /Film, and Variety, attributed the reasons for its low opening to the film's limited three-month marketing, the trailers, and competition from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Elemental.[27][28][29]

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Trên trang web tổng hợp đánh giá Rotten Tomatoes, 65% trong số 92 bài phê bình được xác định là tích cực, với điểm trung bình là 5.8/10. Nhìn chung các nhà bình luận đều đồng thuận ở nội dung: "Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is littered with too much flotsam and jetsam from better animated features to stand as a true original, but its inherent sweetness and lively style make for likable enough family entertainment."[30] Bản mẫu:MC film Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 68% of filmgoers gave it a positive score.[26]

Peter Debruge of Variety gave the film a positive review, writing, "South Park veteran Pam Brady, who shares screenwriting credit with Brian C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi, brings all kinds of funny ideas to the film, which DeMicco does an admirable job of executing. But there's a simpler, more sincere movie underneath it all that seems to be taunting audiences, like a glowing shape from deep below. If you buy the notion that krakens shrink down to human scale — and that none-too-bright people might be daft enough not to spot them — then the high school scenes are charming. Ruby's a big nerd with a head for quadratic equations, and she's having trouble working up the nerve to ask her study buddy to prom (it's pretty clear he feels the same way about her). Not that overprotective Agatha would let her attend anyway."[31]