In hindsight, the original was an easy sell. It appeared with no hype so we got to see it for what it was, not what a marketing juggernaut wanted us to think it was.

And we’re not talking about the world of the Millenium Falcon or Enterprise here, either. We’re talking about the real world where space travel is a dark, claustrophobic pursuit, pressure searing the nerves as surely as the people you’re stuck with for months on end.

At first it appears The Nanny Diaries is going to be like a million other rotten-kid-makes-heroine’s-life-hell-before-winning-her-heart comedies, but under the pretext she’s observing a civilisation for her impending anthropological studies, Annie quickly falls for the annoying kid