Touching down on UK shores a full year after blasting off (in muted fashion) from US cinemas, this innocuous interstellar animation plays to the younger end of the market with undemanding (and largely unoriginal) thrills and spills. When his wantonly heroic brother Scorch Supernova is stranded on "the Dark Planet", it's left to nerdy sibling Gary to boldly go from Baab to Earth, winding up a prisoner of Area 51, wherein enslaved aliens are forced to work on new-fangled inventions such as the internet, the mobile phone, and (more recently) an exterminating death ray.

With Stephen Fry providing "additional writing" and Ricky Gervais as the voice of the on-board computer, you'd expect wry humour and cine-literate pop-culture references aplenty, yet beyond a few nostalgic nods to It Came from Outer Space and arcane public information films, this is very much by-numbers pre-teen fare, spiced up by the sound of William Shatner enjoying himself.