Search: Starring Russell Brand

When you're relying on cameos from Carmen Electra you should know you're in trouble.

Tempting though it might be to think, this is not a mockumentary. Brand is serious.

Would be a serious examination of the family in the postmodern age, were it not so laugh-out-loud funny.

A magnificent 90 minutes of slapstick silliness.

It adds useful continuity to the psammead canon.

Finding out that your girlfriend is leaving you for another man is humiliating enough, but finding out that he's Russell Brand is another story.

As is the case with too many comedies in the age of Apatow, the female characters all seem like afterthoughts, and the film’s sexual politics are achingly conservative.

Hop is ultimately more accomplished than it might need or reasonably be expected to be.

Cruise is by far the most entertaining thing in Rock Of Ages, and as with all his films, he looks like he is trying exceptionally hard.

Everett almost single-handedly sustains the film, thanks to a nicely pitched turn as the headmistress with a heart.

Changing the main character's sex from a man to a woman is the most obvious and radical idea Taymor brings to the table, and it succeeds in deepening several of the piece's key relationships.

With their Day-Glo colours, singing and attitude to hugging, this is probably one of the few animations that will simultaneously appeal to the very young, any parents nostalgic for rave culture and grandparents who tuned in and dropped out.