Well, actually no you haven't. Or Snow White's seven dwarfs name dropping Mann, Lorca and Philip K Dick when they could be digging diamonds? Doubtful.

Writer/director Richard Linklater's (Dazed & Confused) latest is essentially two films in one - a full live-action movie and then a completely animated feature.

What you end up with is like no cartoon you have seen before - it certainly ain't for the kids while many adults could have trouble keeping up with the surreal storyline.

Wiggins plays the unnamed lead character, an American college student who finds himself trapped in a nightmare world...waking from one dream only to find himself in another.

Rather than your usual dream-like fare, Wiggins finds himself opposite talking heads ranging from college professors pondering the meaning of life to good ol' boy rednecks who end up gunning each other down.

A series of tics and expressions flesh out the cartoon characters, giving the dialogue particular resonance and when the going gets tough (and a couple of times it does) there's normally a joke to lighten the mood.

Although the look is definitely that of a garish yet often stunningly beautiful cartoon, no Shrek-style computer generated effects have been used to bring the parts to the screen.

Linklater first shot a straight film of the actors delivering their lines.

Then art director and MTV veteran Bob Sabiston mashalled a team of 30 artists to each work exclusively on a single character (no mean feat as each minute of footage required 250 hours of animation).

What you get is a technically accomplished movie, if one that requires a deal of concentration and isn't that user friendly to a public used to the nanosecond soundbite.

Pomposity - paticularly pomposity California-style - is lanced, while the sort of philosophical rantings favoured by sociology students around closing time also get an airing.

What we end up with is a beguiling oddity - a movie where the unnatural beauty of the screen is matched by the artificial beauty of the script.

Tim Evans