The Teen Titans are yet another B-team super-gang from the D.C. back catalogue. Justice League lite and a whole lot more colourful. Reimagined for a 2013 television series, this animated big-screen upscale pits the characters as hyperactive minors. From the studio most famous for Bugs Bunny, think of them as DC’s equivalent to the Baby Looney Tunes. The animation is styled somewhere between Top Cat and the Power Puff Girls, the humour is kid-friendly Deadpool meta and the soundtrack is My Little Pony inane.
This third in the garish Hotel Transylvania franchise is surprising in only one way. Its cast and director are the same as before, whilst its plot resides in largely familiar territory. What’s harder to believe is that it’s taken Genndy Tartakovsky and company three films to finally introduce Dracula’s infamous foe Professor Van Helsing to the mix.
For most fifty-six-year-olds, a two mile sprint through the centre of London would be mission impossible enough, thank you very much. Not Tom Cruise. Charismatic and indefatigable, the star steers bikes, cars, boats and helicopters in his latest refusal to grow up. The result is something of a middle aged fantasy – younger women, older men – but one impeccably choreographed.
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