Smallfoot

Although it's not on a par with the best of Pixar-Disney, this Warner Bros. release recalls the golden age of Looney Tunes in its energy, inventiveness, and subversive humor.

The songs are a bum note, but the film does raise thoughtful questions about dogma, fake news and the identity crises that might occur once a community's core beliefs are challenged.

It's weirdly and oddly and bizarrely and unexpectedly subversive.

It's mostly didactic, tuneless and dull.

Smallfoot may not be on the level of the best Pixar and Dreamworks efforts but it will make passable half-term viewing for family audiences.

The conceit is nicely done, and the film's unexpectedly heartfelt message about empathy and looking at the world through someone else's eyes just about makes up for its bland animation, smart-arsed script and generic clappy-blah songs.

Light, breezy, clever, and has plenty of heart.

A really beautiful kids movie... There's great music.

Smallfoot tickles the funny bone throughout.

A big splashy movie stuffed with important ideas. Unfortunately propping those ideas up is only about an hour's worth of story padded with songs and silliness to an hour and forty minutes.