Praiseworthy

Rating: 9/10 (8 August 2011)

The King's Speech was more entertaining and approachable than I expected. Two hours covering a stiff monarch from seventy years ago and his endeavors with speech therapy? It might sound like a great cure to insomnia, but this kept me ensnared almost from the very first word. It's a great balance between light-hearted character moments, high-stress trials by fire before an entire nation and quiet personal struggles behind closed doors. After watching poor Albert struggle to open a supermarket in the first half of the film, I was ready to jump up and cheer when he finally put the demon to rest with the climactic radio address.