TARZAN is back, swinging through the trees with his shirt off as usual in the latest take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic hero. But is it any good?

Elsewhere, magicians form the centrepoint for big budget action in the sequel to surprise hit Now You See Me and there are two major comedies sticking around after they hit cinemas last week.

Here are the best and worst films currently playing in Dorset cinemas.

New releases

The Legend of Tarzan (Cert:12A, 110 mins)

The Legend Of Tarzan is an entertaining and rumbustious romp that focuses on the love story between the orphaned hero and his plucky sweetheart against a backdrop of late-19th century treachery.

Director David Yates, who worked his magic at the helm of the final four films in the Harry Potter saga, orchestrates vine-swinging action sequences with aplomb, festooned with a menagerie of computer-generated animals that look incredibly realistic in close-up.

Digital might beats its chest in every lush frame including a bone-crunching fight between Tarzan and one of his ape brethren and a terrifying stampede.

However, Yates is careful to stoke the smouldering on-screen embers between an impressively bare-chested Alexander Skarsgard and the luminous Margot Robbie so we root for the lovers when the odds are stacked heavily against them.

Now You See Me 2 (Cert:12A, 129 mins)

Seeing is deceiving in Jon M Chu's outlandish sequel to the 2013 crime caper about a team of wise-cracking illusionists known as the Four Horsemen, who expose the corrupt with their daredevil antics.

The first film was an enjoyable romp that lost its way with a hare-brained final act that cheated us as well as the gobsmacked characters.

Penned by the same three screenwriters, Now You See Me 2 is a similarly convoluted revenge thriller that repeatedly loosens its grasp on plausibility for the sake of cinematic thrills.

Now You See Me 2 employs digital trickery like its predecessor, building to a firework-laden crescendo during the New Year's Eve celebrations in London that is a damp squib.

Still in cinemas

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (Cert:15, 91 mins)

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley return to their iconic television roles for this rather dreary big screen take on a series that had its day long ago and seems to have no real place in 2016.

Like Zoolander 2 before it, the film is stuffed to bursting with celebrity cameos that serve only to make it incredibly clear that the denizens of the fashion world, whilst stylish, are entirely incapable even of playing themselves convincingly.

Jokes fail to land, cultural references miss the mark and the storyline's abrupt shift into the sun-baked south of France feels contrived to give the actors a free holiday.

There's no doubt that these characters were funny once, but this just feels like too little, too late.

Central Intelligence (Cert:12A, 108 mins)

From the crude puns of its tagline to the presence of squealing comedian Kevin Hart, everything about Central Intelligence screamed that it was yet another lame-brained Hollywood comedy that used bodily fluids and expletives as a substitute for punchlines.

And yet, Dodgeball director Rawson Marshall Thurber is able to craft a delightfully silly movie with a sweetness at its centre and a heartening commitment to goofiness.

Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart prove to have compelling comedic chemistry, with Johnson in particular sending up his trademark hulking muscleman persona to great effect.

It's not up there with the best films of the year, or even the best comedies, but Central Intelligence is a fun way to pass a couple of hours at the multiplex. You'll definitely leave with a smile on your face.