Peter Rabbit 2 review – James Corden’s unfunny bunny scampers back

Voiced by Corden, Peter tumbles into a life of crime in a part-animated caper that's occasionally cute but mostly bland

The new Peter Rabbit film is here - as before directed and co-written by Will Gluck and the hero cheekily voiced by James Corden - presenting a U-certificate entertainment that shows rabbits wisecracking and getting up to larks but thankfully uninterested in breeding or sexual congress of any sort.

Beatrix Potter's creation has returned for a movie sequel that combines live-action humans and CGI bunnies whose co-existence on camera is seamlessly achieved as before in that bright, flat, bland light, as if the screen has been laminated. Some of the story takes place in the picturesque town of Gloucester rather than the Lake District; naturally, we were all hoping Peter Rabbit 2 would show Peter Rabbit's dad as a young man in the old country, a bandit in the countryside, interspersed with scenes showing his grownup son becoming increasingly ruthless as he embraces his violent destiny in the stolen carrot business.