It’s also a flat-out bonkers, slapstick action-comedy about a kung fu-kicking, human-dog hybrid cop who uses wisdom to outsmart and change the hearts of bad guys hoisted by their own petard.

In May 2008 a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote in the House of Commons, by 336 to 176. MPs had been debating the Human Fertilisation and ...