charmingly entertaining

Rating: 9/10 (17 December 2011)

The assessment of whether any film is good or bad is very simple for me: I just apply my golden rule 'did it carry me out of my own reality.' Not for me the analytical approach: was the story line sufficient?. the directoral approach effective? the action scenes technically efficient? the acting superlative? I have no need of such ego-driven parameters that cause me to trip and stumble out of the imagined world into which I have willingly walked.
When I pay my time (and money) to watch a film I simply want to be transported into a 'believable virtual world' of someone else's imagination. I simply want to be 'entertained', which is the real definition of the exercise in which I am involved.
This film performed this task admirably. It was thoroughly entertaining. If it had any spots or pimples they were in places of it's anatomy that I did not trouble to look. I was too busy being entertained and enjoying it and there were no aspects of it's menu that gave me mental or emotional indigestion at any point in my consumption.
Charmingly entertaining!