Illumination have released five films so far, and only two of them are not Despicable Me. And while the Despicable Me films including Minions are all goofy, charming fun, the two films that aren't can't stand a chance. If their next film, which is an original concept, isn't any good either, then Illumination's reputation is going to turn out pretty dang weird.

If it were ever possible, I'd find someone with an actual working time machine, go back in time to when they announced the director of Jurassic World and ring up Colin Trevorrow to warn him about what will happen to Marc Webb and reconsider his directorial duties.

Success not guaranteed.

So this film came straight out of nowhere, and it adapts a little-known stage musical from a few years ago that bases its songs on the actual words from interviews with witnesses of the Steve Wright case, an investigation on the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich, 2006, utilising British slang, chuckling and stuttering for some extra rhythm as well as a darkly comedic musical number based on a newscaster trying to get away with describing jizz on public TV.

Can you believe how well this works?

Trailers:
•PG-13 rated, CG-laden sequel to R-rated action masterpieces
•A sequel that actually takes some risk with its action
•Horror remake with CG galore
•2012 all over again
•CG dinosaurs... for the sake of CG dinosaurs probably I dunno



This summer's going to be a load of bollocks.

While the cuteness it still has makes it difficult to hate, this would be more tolerable if the penguins, CG or not, were just being penguins and not the Seven Dwarfs. A penguin acting like a penguin is fun enough as it is - what need is there to make everyone a Happy Feet reject?

While it's not as fresh as MOST of the Marvel films of last year, Age of Ultron finishes Phase Two with a bang, a boom and a kapow, continuing to provide exactly what we enjoy about reading superhero comics and knowing everything it's doing.

That is, except the chemistry between Mark Ruffalo and Scarlet Johansson, which flat-out exposes Joss Whedon's imperfections to the general public.