The King isn't WEARING any clothes

Rating: 1/10 (23 May 2006)

This movie and the marketing behind it has to be one of the biggest snow jobs in Hollywood since cocaine went out of favor and heroin became chic.
You get the feeling after watching it that the director and the producers sat around in a room and said "oh my god, what are we going to do with this piece of junk on celluloid"? And then someone came up with the brilliant marketing scheme, and called someone at the Vatican to see if they would be willing to stir the pot a little.
Between the church controversy and the multi-million dollar pre-release hype (not to mention the grandstanding at the Cannes film festival), they must have figured they could pull the wool over the public's eyes. Unfortunately they seem to have succeeded.
My recommendation: RUN, don't walk, in the OPPOSITE direction of this banal sad-state-of-the-art-of-film film.
This has to be one of the worst films ever made. The talk about "pre-Oscar buzz" is only more hype to sell tickets.
Should have been straight to video, and even then, its not worth the price of the rental.
AVOID at all costs, the way you would the Black Plague!!