Lo and behold, folks. It’s Reboot Week.

First up, we’ve got a new Smurfs movie called – after what must have been an endless series of marketing and strategy meetings – Smurfs.

The trilogy we had just a few short years ago (2011-17) was a huge hit taking about a billion all up at theatres, thus proving to the people who count that these little blue, ultra-cute elfs from Belgium (where they were born as comic-strip characters way back in 1958, would you believe) still had plenty of box-office mileage in them.

All cynicism aside, Smurfs turns out to be an absolutely delightful, witty animated adventure the whole brood can enjoy – even those family members suffering from Smurf Fatigue after stepping a few too many times on those pesky little hard-plastic figurines.

While every other Smurf in Smurf Village has a purpose, poor No Name Smurf (voiced nicely by Brit comic actor James Corden) is desperate to find an identity.

With the help of Smurfette (singer Rhianna, also one of the producers) – incidentally, the only female in town – No Name finds that magic is his calling, though this promptly causes a rift in the space-time continuum, propelling him, Papa Smurf (veteran John Goodman), Smurfette and a few others into the real world.

Chaos ensues and thankfully it’s crammed with verbal and visual gags, including one terrific chase segment where the Smurfs traverse through different animation styles.

Also seeking renewed love from the mass movie market is Superman, whose previous attempts to reignite a film franchise – Superman Returns (2006); Man of Steel (2013); Batman v Superman (2016) – didn’t, well, fly.

And while this Superman is a rather middling affair, its first week at the global multiplex has been a hands down winner, taking over $220 million American bananas.

And it’s probably all due to the dog.

Yes, Krypto, the super-powered caped canine, star of the old Superboy cartoons from the 1960s, is the big draw here.

Despite the efforts of newly minted Superman (David Corenswet) and favourite nemesis Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) to make a meal of their mega-bickering, it’s the beautifully rendered Krypto who truly saves the day – and the movie.

Last, and definitely least, we have a desperate gasp for oxygen with I Know What You Did Last Summer, a mediocre retooling of the mediocre 1997 horror film as both a remake and a sequel.

It’s the same old deal with plenty of running and screaming as a murderous maniac in a fisherman’s mackintosh uses a hook to hack through an attractive young cast, with survivors of the original film joining the fray.

The easily spooked might find some cheap scares here while genre fans hoping for something fresh are likely to nod off.

Over on Prime the hit action comedy Heads of State is a fun, frenzied treat, offering up lashings of top quality biffo as well a terrific odd couple in John Cena and Idris Elba.

In a mashing of Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cena plays the US president as a former action film star who has ridden his celebrity to the White House.

As his UK counterpart, Elba is a more downbeat prime minister who doesn’t respect him.

The pair are targeted by a nuclear-obsessed master criminal (Paddy Consadine) who destroys Air Force One mid-flight, unaware that they have escaped and are now traipsing across a hostile Belarus.

With plot twists aplenty, it’s a very well- assembled yarn involving high-level corruption, betrayal and lots of explosive chases as the leads (who produced the film) play off each other with great zeal and sarcasm, inevitably resulting in some male bonding.

There’s a heap of humour and thrills here – just be cautioned how, for an action comedy, things do get a tad more violent than is really necessary.

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