Demon car Christine is a beauty all right. Red as the devil, all gleaming chrome and dazzling headlamps, playing tunes on the radio to express her thoughts.

But woe betide anyone who comes between her and her young master Arnie. This is a film that believes strongly in action, and its scenario never misses a chance to aim for the lowest common denominator.

But, after a longish period of delineating Arnie's many enemies that Christine will eventually take to the grinder's, there are few dull spots in the film's lengthy running time, although the final duel between Christine and the excavator doesn't have quite the variation of excitement that it might have done.