The fresh, alert performances add enormously to the polished sparkle of the script.

Mel Smith's directorial debut is uninhibited by finesse, but it has its laughs.

It is hard to resist a story in which a man wearing an elephant head pedals his bicycle through London in mad pursuit of his true love.

‘…arguably the most copied British film ever; these tropes have been seen in tens if not hundreds of films since, so it’s striking to see them played with varying degrees of confidence the first time around…