With wonderful production values, who needs an interesting story?

Rating: 4/10 (7 March 2002)

I really wanted to like this movie: clever sets, clever lighting, rapid edits, and it is very clever how "modern" songs are interwoven. Unfortunately the story is the usual hollywood recycled trash.
The characters are flimsy, the story repeated a bajillion times before, and telegraphed in the first ten minutes of the film. An evil duke - oh my - how original and interesting. Two people who fall in love at first site - wow. Wacky sidekicks - golly.
It's fun to look at, but again we have proof that hollywood assumes that money put into flash will hide the lack of substance.
It's not horrible, but it is not as good as I wanted it to be.