Laughs and a crazy adventure story

Rating: 10/10 (28 April 2018)

I must admit to coming across this on an evening with my wife out with her friends. I'd heard of it when it was on at the cinema and thought "Nah, I'll give a miss. Besides, it's bound to be crap", forgetting I've enjoyed watching the likes of The Princess Bride, Labaryth in my time. I sat down and boy, what a mistake I made! The script moves at a good speed (not too slow to make it boring, not to fast to make you make it confusing to question what you had just watched. It was funny/m or romantic where it needed to be. The eclectic gathering of actors from both sides of the pond make you surprised to see Dexter Blackstock playing second in command to a cross dressing Captain Shakespeare, Robert De Niro. Whoever decided cast him in that role must have that he'd had a meltdown doing it, but it couldn't have been more right. In 2017 everyone was raving how during Baby Driver's action scenes when with the music. Well, this film did it 10 years earlier, as the sword fighting on the deck of The Caspertine will show that. All in all, I found it a film to watch on a wet, miserable day which should make you (like Claire Danes' character Yvaine) shine