While there are some noticeable differences between this film’s take on the characters and that of the show it’s not different enough to be particularly interesting and just feels like a thirty minute episode padded out to a full hour.

I watched this because I had seen a clip of the Street Fighter scene and I had no idea how long it was going to take for that to actually arrive. A lot of the silliness is quite fun but I think its attempts to translate cartoon physical gags into live action fall flat most of the time and it has a lot of humour based around the protagonist just being a lech, which I always hate.

I quite enjoyed the occasional comic relief of Herbie and Joseph discussing the perfect murder and the general sitcom vibes of the family completely oblivious to and disconnected to what’s going on with the Charlies. The resolution did seem a is a bit sudden.

A gorgeous film and (a point I am stealing from a friend) one that finds beauty in things that are normally considered disgusting: Fungus and insects. It makes those the centre of its environmentalism, not just giving us the usual imagery of flowers, rainforests and charismatic megafauna.