It has generous lashings of Aardman Animations’ trademark warmth, visual inventiveness, and satisfying Claymation tactility.
Ahmed Ahmed exhibits no interest in expanding his ideas into a serious sociological inquiry.
The show never really succeeds at being anything other than a fitfully amusing imitation of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The film timidly lands on an underdeveloped middle ground between skewering and embracing mass-market consumerism.
The film is so garishly colorful and cute that even rom-com neophytes will find its uninspired adherence to formula borderline-unbearable.
It ain’t pretty but you have a choisa: See Modigliani or rent Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio instead.
If shadow delineation ever needed to look bad, it's on this DVD.
The film scarcely bothers with the rudiments of plot before streaking off into the atmosphere.