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The audience should be warned that the film boasts a cliche level that could also be hazardous to health.

For some viewers the build up of devious plot twists may be a little overwrought but it is nevertheless an effective way of skewering the cynical viewer.

Intrigue peels away to reveal darker, deeper layers of complexity and corruption. The plot explodes.

For farce to work well, the plotting needs to be watertight, whereas here the sheer excess of characters fails entirely to cover up this film's flimsy underpinnings.

When it's not busy trying to impress, the film conjures up a lot of atmosphere and succeeds in disturbing.

This is a mainstream consideration of Garland's life but Zellweger brings fine art to its more broad brush moments.

Good writing and committed performances.

As a full-length no-brainer it just about qualifies for a low attention span afternoon.

The character design, already well established by the TV show, is crisp, the stop-motion animation as ever is lovely, and the depth of detail in the sets is great.

Although it follows the standard script in terms of its basic outline, Spider Island is more than usually likeable and more than usually fun.

For fans of the musical, this will give them more of what they already like, perhaps even too much. For those not yet fans I'm not sure this will give them enough.