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Hooray for movie fun time!
I win because I correctly anticipated the latter-day Cary Elwes romantic-rival character's return of DeNiro's wink, and went "BWAH!" then, while everyone else in the room only reacted to it. It was a difference of fractions of a second, but that's all it takes in horse racing.
Hee! Otherwise: love. Yeah, okay, some day it will be the case that high camp won't be assumed to be funny, etc. etc., but once I got past the momentary indignation -- ha ha, it's Bobby DeNiro swishing it up, how amusing, isn't it some other population's turn to be mocked now? -- it was in fact funny. And I did like that the crew was right there with him. "We always knew you was a wopsy." Bless. And everybody catch the easter-egg "Arr" at the end of the credits? Also: hi, Rupert Everett! How've you been? Where've you been? We haven't seen you in so long, I spent a lot of this movie going "Now, I Know that's not Rufus Sewell, but damn it, who is it?" Honestly. [eta: And it turns out I was wrong; you were a whole other -us than I thought. Go fig.] And: dear Michelle Pfeiffer, just how many portraits do you have in your attic?, signed, the world.
[eta: I knew the older Dunstan Thorn looked familiar -- it was the dude who played Laertes in Mel Gibson's ([hiss, spit]) Hamlet. He was really good in that! And also very good-looking, as I recall; but as I said w/r/t Jonathan Crombie in "Slings & Arrows", yeah, you know, it really has been twenty years. For all of us. Damn.]
I win because I correctly anticipated the latter-day Cary Elwes romantic-rival character's return of DeNiro's wink, and went "BWAH!" then, while everyone else in the room only reacted to it. It was a difference of fractions of a second, but that's all it takes in horse racing.
Hee! Otherwise: love. Yeah, okay, some day it will be the case that high camp won't be assumed to be funny, etc. etc., but once I got past the momentary indignation -- ha ha, it's Bobby DeNiro swishing it up, how amusing, isn't it some other population's turn to be mocked now? -- it was in fact funny. And I did like that the crew was right there with him. "We always knew you was a wopsy." Bless. And everybody catch the easter-egg "Arr" at the end of the credits? Also: hi, Rupert Everett! How've you been? Where've you been? We haven't seen you in so long, I spent a lot of this movie going "Now, I Know that's not Rufus Sewell, but damn it, who is it?" Honestly. [eta: And it turns out I was wrong; you were a whole other -us than I thought. Go fig.] And: dear Michelle Pfeiffer, just how many portraits do you have in your attic?, signed, the world.
[eta: I knew the older Dunstan Thorn looked familiar -- it was the dude who played Laertes in Mel Gibson's ([hiss, spit]) Hamlet. He was really good in that! And also very good-looking, as I recall; but as I said w/r/t Jonathan Crombie in "Slings & Arrows", yeah, you know, it really has been twenty years. For all of us. Damn.]
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I *loved* them using the Can Can as fight music, because it fit right in with that ship. And I swear the first mate was *dissappointed* when Capt. Shakespeare's threat turned out to throwning overboard instead of buggery...
The various princes were quite entertaining, though Mark Strong's performance after he was *dead* was the most stunning part of the finale, I think. That was honestly disturbing. And I liked Una rather a lot.
Mark Williams as the Billy Goat was pretty damned impressive, once I recognized him and stopped being baffled why he looked familiar.
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Overall: love! Even with the changes and occasional bobbles.