The first sentence in most synopses of The Sessions will be enough to put you off – ‘a polio-afflicted man…’ It’s the kind of movie you’ll feel like you should see but don’t really want to and will probably endure rather than enjoy. It indeed – as some members of the cast have joked – […]

The plot is a throwaway concern featuring another Macguffin that everybody wants to find. An opening coda explains how the descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons have been on Earth for milennia, hidden among us after having built a huge machine designed to destroy the sun for their power source (no, it makes no sense to us either).

With the styles of acting, comedy, film technique, make-up, lighting and effects that befit the period, it’s almost beside the point to ask whether Dr Plonk is a good movie. It seems just as important to judge the film on the merit of it being an authentic movie.