Orion and the Dark, review: Charlie Kaufman’s spin on a Pixar film is sweet, hectic and overambitious

What’s Charlie Kaufman’s favourite Pixar film? We know the answer – Monsters, Inc. – because this egghead genius of a screenwriter said so once, while confessing that he hadn’t much cared for WALL.E. His feelings about Inside Out (2015) may be tinged with a trace more bitterness, since it competed with, and bested, his own thoroughly depressive stop-motion animation Anomalisa at that year’s Oscars – a comparison game, given their wildly different remits, that he found absurd.