brilliant 3D - exceptionally dull story telling

Rating: 2/10 (6 December 2011)

The use of 3D in this film is fantastic and almost makes the film worth seeing if you're a 3D aficionado.
Putting that to one side the story is dire and plodding and there is some very poor acting.
The relationship between the boy and girl is static formed through an accidental meeting their subsequent apparent bonding and camaraderie is very unemotional and unbelievable. Ben Kingsly looks seriously bored all the way through; certainly the film does not stretch his talents at all. Sacha B C tries a style of slapstick that is inferior and derogatory to any disabled person. What the characters played by Francis de la Tour and Richard Griffiths were actually meant to be for in story development is wasted on this viewer - their mewing and fawning was bizarre to say the least.