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Whenever she and Lumley leave the screen the energy level sags faster than 60-year-old eye bags without Botox.

Less the free-form, jazzy ensemble satire on the art world it aspires to be than an over-elaborate and under-funny undertaking by high quality actors who should know better.

This is an adult, sophisticated love story, examining Marion Davies' passions for two very capable and sometimes ruthless men.

Corpse Bride is even better than The Nightmare Before Christmas. It displays the imagination of a man, haunted in childhood by the Brothers Grimm, with a twisted sense of humour, steeped in 19th century romanticism.

A cast to die for? Certainly. And they almost do.

The film has two defects. It isn't funny and Hugh Laurie is not Hugh Grant.

The plot may be puerile, but the action never stops and the animation, however achieved, is most impressive.

This is exactly what a sequel should be, respectful, goose bumpy and warm hearted

The plot is cobbled together from second-hand ideas and given as much panache as Hush Puppies on a catwalk.

Cushing, increasingly cadaverous with age, presents us with a character who may well be beginning to wonder about his own mortality.

The cast are terrific, and the comic set pieces are handled with precision and impeccable timing, even if not all of the jokes hit home.

This is how you destroy people's dignity and make them yours, Scorsese seems to say.