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The narrative of Billion Backs contains too many disparate elements but when the comedy is this consistent it isn’t too much of a compromise.

Two lazy fat cats with accents halve the fun.

Easily the most imaginative, energetic and engaging children's film to hit cinemas this Christmas.

Making sense of explosions on green screen is a tough call

Child childs will love it

It is jaw-droppingly funny, but also somewhat perplexing.

It is in these details, the small objects Jonze provides us with in his film of disembodied desires, that essences become distilled.

A film like this is great for kids: fun, bright, short (76 minutes) and action packed, with a soft nurturing touch.

The plot flies in and out of lunacy at gasp speed

Fast and funny enough to let even its derivativeness take wing – and, as any seven-year-old can tell you, dragons are cool.

There is no tension, no expectation of trouble. Happiness infuses the land

As a marketing devise for soundtrack sales it has possibilities

The charm levels are high

In the end, you care more about the acorn than the baby.

There are too many ideas, both verbally and visually, to take in before the ghost of Walt Disney has a spectral moment.

The fingerprints left behind by us an upon us as we go through life are considered by Jérémy Clapin's animated feature debut.

The best film of 2004 - and the best superhero movie ever!

Pigs go wild!

There is a surreal imagination at work here.

Please Walt, leave the boy alone.

Absence of innovation will please traditionalists.

A journey you have never travelled before

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

The audience has to let go to. It's the only way.

It ranks in the higher echelons of the second division for the quality of its animation and vocal support

How the film avoids animation overload is with a script that apes cynical teenspeak and a voice cast that is ensemble perfection.

What destroys your will to live is the story and the characters.

This is a classic, undiminished by time.

In crash bang lingo this would be dubbed explosivimo

It's like a suicide. And there's nothing to look at

Those anarchic avians, the penguins, steal every scene they are in making them, to my way of thinking, the best additions to animated film since that coyote fancied roadrunner for dinner.

The bleached-to-monochrome palette and rich textures are stunningly beautiful to behold, if also deeply unnerving.

Formulaically funny and kids will adore every derivative minute.

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

Has an interesting script by Murray Watts, a wonderful sense of place and an imaginative use of flashbacks, where a painterly technique emulates memory.

The plot stumbles into an abyss early. There is nothing left because there was nothing here in the first place

In its gentle, meandering way, this show can be highly addictive to the pre-tweenie market.

Sack the writers, disarm the director and banish the gatecrashers. The Muppets aren't The Muppets anymore

The script has a heartfelt carefulness but it is never preachy, with 'naughty' conversations about the home's teacher's willy exploding likely to have pre-adolescents (and adults who well remember these sorts of conversations) hooting with laughter.

Like the best of the Pixar and Looney Tunes output, Lepeniotis doesn't dwell on his visual gags waiting for each one to get a laugh, instead frequently throwing them out one after the other to good culmulative effect.

It hits all the right notes. It's cute, it's funny and the creatures and the backdrops are all amazing.

The script lacks any kind of wit and the plot is so careful not to dilute the treacly sentiment that it's not exciting.

It disappoints on two fronts. The directors, Bobby and Peter Farrelly, love vulgar so much they can't be anything else and the complexity of the human body is too wondrous for a bunch of animators to figure out.

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

If you are four, you will enjoy this. If you are five, you might think Piglet not worth finding. If you are six, you'll want more action.

I give director Frank Nissen full marks for creating the very essence of the English countryside.