Oh, dear. Another week, another $200 million Hollywood blockbuster designed to do little more than help you kill time while you munch on over-buttered popcorn and furtively check your emails and stock charts.

That’s Marvel’s latest superhero lark The Fantastic Four: First Steps in a nutshell, a rather routine adventure in which Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), his pregnant wife Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and The Thing (Ebon Moss- Bachrach) do battle with The Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) and over-sized villain Galactus (Ralph Ineson).

It’s the biggest film on Earth at the moment, though, like Superman and Jurassic World Rebirth, that says more about the impact of saturation marketing than about the quality of the film.

Set in the 1960s, Fantastic Four boasts a distinctive look with its beautiful retro-futuristic design, but the story, involving the villain’s obsession with Storm’s baby, is thin and rather silly, even for a comic-book spectacle.

Chalk it up as another blockbuster bland-out.

Horror fans still recovering from I Know What You Did Last Summer will find consolation and lots of delight in Together, a devilishly original spook tale with heaps of scares.

Moving to a remote house in the woods, a young couple (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find their plans to reignite their relationship distracted by an encounter with an evil spirit intent on possessing their bodies.

Apart from the cabin-in-the-woods trope, the film is largely free of the usual cliches as the slow-burn story builds in intensity to a very satisfying pay-off. Genre fans will love it, though the squeamish should be warned.

And here’s another warning, mainly for die-hard fans of funny girl Rebel Wilson who will have trouble with her latest effort Bride Hard, an attempt at an action comedy that applies the Die Hard formula to a wedding.

Wilson plays a secret agent who has to contend with a group of well-armed criminals who invade her best friend’s wedding. Ho-hum.

It’s tough enough buying Rebel Wilson as an action figure – especially with all the fight scenes involving an obvious stunt double – but the lame jokes and strained storyline make this one of her more mediocre efforts. And there have been quite enough of those, thank you.

We’ve been waiting for decades but – hurrah! – Happy Gilmore 2 is finally with us.

The sequel to Adam Sandler’s hit 1996 comedy about a financially strapped hockey player who turns to golf to save his grandma’s house, the film is a surprisingly polished lark loaded with references to the original along with most of its cast.

Thirty years on, Gilmore is wrestling with alcoholism as he tries getting his life back on track after accidentally killing his lovely wife (Julie Bowen from Modern Family, almost unrecognisable from the original).

With the support of his loving brood of teenage kids he enters a new jazzed-up golf game to raise funds for his daughter’s education.

Briskly paced with lashings of Sandler’s low-flying humour, the film fervently taps into the huge following the first film has built and includes cameos from a host of legendary figures from the golfing world, where Happy Gilmore enjoys iconic status.

Catch it on Netflix, the streaming giant that counts Happy Gilmore 2 as the latest in a long, unbroken series of hits from Sandler, whose early production deal proved how his business nous is as sharp as his films are crowd-pleasing.

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