If you are not a fan of the Moshi Monsters online virtual-reality game, you may find this animated movie spinoff an incredibly annoying and baffling bore. If, on the other hand, you are a fan, you may still feel something similar, suspecting that the wacky but lifeless graphics are acceptable in an experience in which you, the viewer, are creating and controlling what is happening, but far less excusable in a feature film.

The idea is a number of cutesy Moshi Monsters are battling to stop the evil and tiresomely named Dr Strangeglove from destroying the rare Moshling Egg. There are a number of adventures in a place called "Jollywood" (with goodness-gracious-me Indian voices saying "jolly good") and an encounter with quaintly conceived cannibal tribesmen who keep their captives in the traditional big black comedy cauldron. The Moshi Monsters game itself may be phenomenally successful, but the standalone movie is wearing.