There are some striking designs and a few hat-tips to 2001: A Space Odyssey. But it all feels a bit perfunctory, like a successful launch that has no destination among the stars or anywhere else.

Pixar is encouraging us to dream about a reality in which we could’ve received an Alisha action figure for our birthdays.

The Chris Evans film has little soul, spark and moving moments.

The film’s very superfluousness gives it a low-key charm, a sort of half-shrug doodle vibe where genuinely silly gags and zippy-quippy zingers ricochet with harmless delight throughout an otherwise generic hero’s journey.