Fair to Middling if That

Rating: 5/10 (21 October 2006)

I really had no desire to see this, but a friend wanted to so I went. I should have trusted my instincts. The theater was almost empty--what does that say. The first clue that this was a rotten drag was when we first see Marie (Dunst) as a girl supposed to be 15--and 15, she does not look. So ridiculous was her entrance with highlights in her blond hair---mind you, highlights...now did they have highlights back then. I was not too keen on the casting and what was most incredibly and so extremely disturbing was the rock music--rock music in a seemingly period piece. You, the viewer, the audience, get only a fraction of the character that was Marie Antoinette. We do witness some maturity and growth, but then, slam, slap--the movie ends. I was stunned as were the few, very few, sitting with me in the rather empty theater. At least, the director could have put some words on the screen to tell the viewer what happened, but I guess she figured we all know the ending---bad. See it on television. A waste.