ALADDIN London Coliseum

David Bintley, artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, has said that his family dance show has nothing to do with either pantomime slapstick or Walt Disney schmaltz and that it is “the least deep ballet I have ever made.” Now his production may well do very nicely for very young children, who were there in abundance at the matinee I attended; but I think their elders are going to be very disappointed by its superficiality. The ballet is content to be pretty spectacle. There is a lack of drama and the choreography is undemanding. The show is overlong and could do with some humour. The best joke is Carl Davis’s score, which borrows wholesale from everybody.