MONSTER FAMILY

experience, smuggled into cinemas disguised as a glossy blockbuster.

Telling the story from the Soviet spies’ point of view, this is a highly critical spin on 007’s From Russia With Love. Far from a satin-sheeted romp with Sean Connery, Dominika’s mission involves a more realistic experience of espionage.

She’s humiliated, abused and raped, all at the behest of powerful and much older men, who are her mentors and supposed protectors. It’s hard not to read this as a damning critique of Hollywood and a metaphor for an actress’s life in the sex scandal environment prior to #metoo. Cert PG Running time

An early contender for the worst family film of the year, only the naughtiest kids should be exposed to this monstrously poor animated horror show.

A lovelorn Count Dracula orders a witch to magically transform a married mother of two into a vampire so he can woo her. Unfortunately, her stupid bickering family are also changed into various legendary creatures, such as Frankenstein’s monster, and they’re not best pleased.

Pratfalls and fart jokes pad out the script of this repetitive, joyless, charmless, mind-numbing drivel. It’s brought to zombified life by feasting on the creative blood of far superior films such as Pixar’s Incredibles and Adam Sandler’s Hotel Transylvania – sequels out this summer.

Horrifyingly, this is even worse than Tom Cruise’s recent version of The Mummy. Emily Watson, Nick Frost, Celia Imrie, Jason Isaacs and Catherine Tate are the Brit voice talent putting a stake through the heart of their credibility for an easy payday.