There’s a nice touch of self-deprecating humour to the title of the animated adventure Epic (G), which features all manner of swashbuckling and derring-do in a breathless save-the-world plot — except this world exists at the micro-level.

Based on the children’s book ‘The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs’ by William Joyce, ‘Epic’ is a charming fable that could, with clever parental persuasion, inspire the youngest generation to swap their video games for an invigorating spot of housework.

Scrat the sabre-toothed squirrel’s pursuit of his beloved acorns has cataclysmic consequences for an entire continent in the latest chapter of the hugely popular ‘Ice Age’ series.

Lots of new character development for our heroes and heroines in the third of the excellent and very funny animated series - so much so that it’s hard to keep up.

From the maker of the highly-successful Ice Age comes another charming computer-animated story … a battle of the good old against the nasty new.