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Where these genius guys who put All Tomorrow’s Parties together succeed beyond expectation is in capturing the fierce and beautiful commitment of everyone involved.

My token seven-year-old sat entranced through the agreeable 90-minute runtime and opined that 'it was really cool'.

There are some nice set pieces here and there but, like the air on Terra, everything feels stodgier than normal.

[Curious George] just goes out to entertain and make people feel happy.

Whilst it has something going for it as a study of awkwardness, it never quite takes this far enough to break new ground.

Penn has come up trumps.

A beautifully shot, brilliantly acted incoherent mess, ranking up there with David Lynch’s Inland Empire as one of the most inscrutable films of the year.

A thoroughly enjoyable confection that will amuse the kids and provide some decent laughs for those of us for whom attempting a roundhouse kick would require pain medication and physical therapy (I know, I tried).

The vocal cast is star studded. Trouble is they are given too little to speak.

This is really a film that rests on Slate’s charm, which fortunately she delivers in spades.

Defect Six: how do you make a movie about losers that isn’t a loser itself?

None of the subplots follow through. Ideas hang on hooks, waiting for collection.

I've seen it described as a film with a twist but that suggests it's got just one. It's full of them, it's made of them, it reels and gyres and tumbles into something special.

This might have seemed like a barrel of laughs but it's actually just a barrel of shit.