The adventures of Anne Boleyn's smarter sister.......

Rating: 1/10 (24 December 2010)

Mary was of course Anne's older sister,not younger,and she and her siblings were pimped by their social climbing father the appalling Thomas Boleyn(even the name "Boleyn" was an affectation borrowed from the French Court,their real names was "Bullen").The overall feeling is that if Henry had a taste for bestiality Boleyn would have pimped one of his wolfhounds. "The Other Boleyn Girl" is trash,basically.Only Miss S.Johansson escapes unscathed as "The King's Great Matter" is presented as a bodice - ripper that almost plays like a badly - written satire about the Tudor Court. Eric Bana is lousy as Henry the Eighth,portraying England's last all - powerful king as a spoiled 14 year old.Here was a sophisticated,learned man seen as a bearded Zac Effron. There were no feminists in Tudor England,whatever thoughts Lady Boleyn,who had allegedly been Henry's mistress as a young woman, might have had about the King's conduct about her children she kept to herself in order to survive. Mary Boleyn bore the King's Bastard and kept her head when many about her were losing theirs - a not inconsiderable achievement. That may be a subject worthy of a movie,but one would hope that it might be rather better than this load of tosh.