Search: Directed by Gore Verbinski

You can't help feeling British audiences may well embrace the film's oddness - and blatant anti-American stance - which while not always successfully executed, means there is rarely a dull moment.

Gore Verbinski treats the whole thing as a romp.

Mouse Hunt is a cartoon without animation. It should have stayed drawn. Live action only bumps into the furniture.

Basing his character largely on Keith Richards and looking like a refugee from Adam Ant's Dog Eat Dog video, Johnny Depp crashes through the film, chewing up scenery and spitting it out with aplomb.

Visually, as well as in certain performances, the final instalment of Disneyworld Goes Hollywood has a healthy infusion of surrealism and a sense of humour.

The film bogs down in incomprehensible ya-ya. There are three or four plotlines going off in different directions.

The performances by Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson are intense and charming.

It is admirable that Verbinski has chosen to forgo 3D, as the spectacle he conjures in his various set-pieces is enough to have you ducking and diving already.

Guy Pearce is a puzzling lead, at times desperately out of his depth, mostly getting away with it due to his skill at looking lost and miserable as he mumbles his lines and does a bizarre impression of Nick Cave.

A look at the commonest fear nipping at the heart of Middle America. Not the war in Iraq, nor terrorism, but the breakdown of the family unit and how - and, indeed, if - people can cope with it.