Starring a fun prosthetic creature, Hungry is not here for a long time or a good time. Hippos, you had your chance and you blew it. Bring on the violent vole movies.

This animal-attack horror plugs a gap with beasties -- hippopotamuses -- that may be deadly in real life but are hard to take seriously as a threat on screen.

Hungry forgoes the silliness and becomes an intense animal attack survival horror that can stand alongside the likes of Deep Blue Sea, Rogue, and Crawl.

Worst of all, the computer-generated hippo never feels like a credible threat, not least because it actually looks quite cute...