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Blends zany character comedy and squeamishly surreal grossout with some postmodern wit and knowing parody of action cliché tropes.

Ideal summer entertainment.

How can you refuse a movie that offers a POV shot of inside a snake's belly?

Laugh? You’ll beg for mercy. As for sentimentality, it’s like poison ivy spreading across every scene.

As an ensemble movie with a social agenda, it speaks the gospel of community over commercialism.

The camera bounces around from one staged encounter to the next, until you start feeling curiously seasick from the clumsy breaks and wandering pan shots.

Imagination breaches the boundaries of wonder

Having the director's name in the title implies there's another Ghosts Of Mars somewhere. If so, choose it, because this has feathers and won't live to see Christmas.

Ultimately the in-your-face style and confusing story stop the emotions from getting truly under your skin.

There's no subtlety here. Follow the dots.

In between the 1000cc revs, the squeaking leather and the speed-induced adrenalin rushes, a plot lurks.

Drawing on coming book traditions rather than the animation styles associated with the TV series or previous big screen efforts, it makes for stunning viewing: fluid, inventive and full of character.

Don't be fooled into thinking this is just another buddy-buddy war picture. It is something really rather unique.