Untrue blue

Smurfs on a rescue mission

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feel blue, and not in a satisfying and Smurfalicious way. Director Chris Miller's colour-saturated reboot of the fun-loving film franchise is a lacklustre clone of Trolls.

There are song and dance numbers and a caterwaul from the heart, Always On The Outside, sung by James Corden, which opens with the soul-searching lyric: "Who am I? Where do I belong?"

Sadly, Smurfs doesn't appear to know what it is or where it belongs in the glittering pantheon of computer-animated adventures.