★★☆☆☆
Stealing liberally from Pixar, Terry Pratchett and, most obviously, the Eighties fantasy comedy Teen Wolf, this surreal but shonky Mexican animation makes the clichéd link between monstrous transformation and adolescence and does absolutely nothing new with it.
A bullied teenager discovers that he is from a family of orange scaly beasts who have to drink a special concoction to make them appear human. There’s a certain maverick weirdness to it — in monster form, the poor lad appears to have a giant scrotum on his back — but the storytelling is stilted, the animation looks half-finished and much of the dubbing is woefully out of synch.
PG, 80min