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The performances are rapier sharp

More often than not, when emotion is called for, Michael Konyves lays on the scripting far too thick.

This is hardly a bastion of accuracy, but it does cover its ground well.

We shouldn’t feel so obviously manipulated and steered away from everything else towards the leads’ performances.

The end product might not feature too many surprises, but the dialogue is occasionally dazzling and leads to many poignant moments.

Minnie Driver has the best time. She is a positive performer, who loves to act.

A story this damp should be squeezed before use.

Only Firth's performance gives it air. The plot lacks surprise and the humour has been planted in advance.

Despite the good dialogue the script is lacking depth.

This is ‘day from hell’ territory, but none of the comedy rises to the occasion.

A considerably flawed, yet visually superb, tale of beauty, beast and love.

In this way, Miyazaki avoids any simplistic 'message', preferring to present a more complicated dialectic on the environmental difficulties that continue to 'curse' us to this day.

This is romance the way grandma remembers it.

Trey Parker (director, producer, writer and voice of half a dozen characters) does not simply debunk institutional humbug, he twists its pigtail and stomps on its rhetoric.

This is an uneven directorial debut - but not an unaccomplished one.

The film mixes good old-fashioned storytelling with state-of-the-art animation, and it's a winning combination.