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You can picture the script meeting: how to get everyone in the key cinemagoing demographic, from 15 right up to 40, laughing at the same movie? Could the thirtysomething concerns of Seth Rogen’s ‘Fret’ Pack oeuvre be merged with the carefree, keg-party shenanigans of the frat-com? Dare they try? Called …

Instead, the Hollywood CG-machine behind Despicable Me take a simple, potent allegory which arrived ahead of its time and turn it into a wacky 3D kids’ movie that feels behind it. Opening exuberantly with a kicky musical number, The Lorax introduces us to a happy, plastic city where fresh air …