It’s painfully too long and lacks an overall sense of urgency but what it gets right more than makes up for that. Emma Stone as Cruella is mesmerising and her pairing against Emma Thompson is inspired - the level of vamping is occasionally off the charts and it’s fun, even though some of the CGI is ropey, the London geography deeply questionable and I was often left wishing they’d just get to the point. Someone thought 140 minutes were needed to anchor a franchise without an obvious need and the two leads prove them enjoyably wrong - their scenes trying to out arch one another alone would have been worth the price of admission. That said it’s a perfect rainy Sunday afternoon film and there are Dalmatians in it!