fantastic fantasy film for those who don't take life too seriously

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2012)

Well after seeing a few stinging critics give the film a big knockdown i was almost put off seeing it, but i checked their other reviews and saw what they considered a good film and realised i have vastly different tastes to them, so i went and watched it and glad i did. At 2hrs long i was expecting it to drag more but it didn't, the cinematography was fantastic, the story itself was light but enjoyable, doesn't take itself too seriously.....i think some people have just been to see this film knowing they wont like it so they can come away complaining about how it didn't do what it said on the label So yes OK Baron-Cohens accent was a bit out of place, i'm not sure if he was intentionally doing a John Cleese impression but thats how it came across - something a bit more french and cleaseuesque would have been appropriate but after i got used to it his humour was OK. The children were a little bit wooden in parts maybe but nowhere as near as bad as frodo in LOTR which lots of people didn't mind or notice at the time - so yep we're all different and see things differently and me and my gf both enjoyed this film, not sure how it will look in 2D though.