Mark Kermode

However, look, it's a rom-com and a rom-com is not a genre in which gritty credibility is the driving force.

It's a genre in which it's, do you like these people?

Do you care about them?

And do you actually, are you...

Are you sort of anticipating in your mind how the thing's going to play out?

So, I mean, the whole thing looks like an advert for Manchester's thriving nightlife, which frankly, I'm all up for.

And there were more than enough chuckles and poignant moments to paper over the frankly gaping cracks in the narrative.

I do think that an awful lot of credit is to Spike Fern for making any of it believable, because...

because you believe in him and because you believe in, you know, Owen's sort of completely wide-eyed infatuation, you sort of just go along with the rest of it.

And like I said, it is contrived and it's got every cliche in the book, but it was kind of charming and kind of sweet and kind of funny.

And I do love the Manchester Locals.

So generally I thought it was fine.

And everybody shouts Top Gun Maverick because that's what we do.

That's what we do.

When we say Top Gun Maverick, but obviously we're in a studio.

Which is Indian Malay language action comedy.

Wasn't press screened.

So if anyone's seen it, drop us an email.

Shrek is a new entry at number nine.

It's just re-released Tastic at the moment, isn't it?