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Love and Monsters: The post-apocalypse never looked so cuddly
A ruthlessly efficient script and winning central performance keep this generic show on the road
The goofily charming Dylan O’Brien and excellent dog Boy in Love and Monsters. Photograph: Paramount Pictures
Film Title: Love and Monsters
Director: Dylan O Brien, Jessica Henwick, Dan Ewing, Ariana Greenblatt, Michael Rooker
Starring: Michael Matthews
Steven Spielberg has worked across every conceivable genre in a long and distinguished career and yet it’s impossible to hear the adjective “Spielbergian” without conjuring a family-friendly teenage actioner from the 1980s. That’s certainly the blueprint for the PG adventure of Love and Monsters, a post-apocalyptic fantasy that makes a dystopian future blighted by genetically mutated beasties look like good clean fun. In a self-deprecating, lightly snarky voiceover