The Borrowers (1997)

Like its pint-sized cinematic predecessors (such as The Incredible Shrinking Man, Inner Space and Honey I Shrunk the Kids), The Borrowers remains a classic premise: tiny characters on screen fire up big imaginations. And because it's nearly the Crimbo hols and kids are like adults - - only smaller - - they need to go to the cinema too. Fortunately, The Borrowers is no bloated, derivative, terminally unfunny pap (Jingle All The Way anyone?), the staple fare of many a dreary pressie-filled season. For a start, it looks completely fabulous, with seamless, whizzy special effects, not to mention a million huge props, which give the minutiae of life Godzilla-sized proportions. It's a film that cries out to be seen on the big screen.

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