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| William And Kate Movie |
It's only going to intensify over the next couple of weeks, and Five are adding to the babble with an American-made TV movie called William & Kate.
Nico Evers-Swindell plays an unusually hairy pated William in the film, with Camilla Luddington taking on the role of 'commoner' - actually William's twelfth cousin - Kate, having previously plied her trade with a role as 'woman' in TV Series 'Friends With Benefits'. In addition to these unknowns, they've got a bloke who was working in Starbucks and looks a little bit like Prince Harry to play William's little bro - and apparently he's not the best thespian on the block.
But we can't judge it here at TV Pixie, as we haven't seen it yet. So let's see what the early reviews are saying...
Richard Godwin at The Evening Standard said:
In a way, this film is absolutely ace.
Critics in America have panned this movie as a cheesy chick-flick, but there are positives. It is recognisably a film, in that it takes place on a screen. Events run in a forward direction.
This may be made for the US, but the English will cherish it in ways its makers could scarcely have envisaged.
Diplomatic, but mocking. What did the Mail make of it?
Director Mark Rosman didn`t exactly make accuracy his number one priority. London buses are seen driving, incorrectly, on the right side of the street. That may be because the film was shot entirely on location, not in the Highlands or London, but in Los Angeles, California. Think Buckingham Palace 90210.
Cripes! What did Stephen Bates at The Guardian think?
It`s so bad it`s awful, toe-curlingly, teeth-furringly, pillow-bitingly ghastly. There are movies so bad that they transcend awfulness. Ed Wood`s Plan 9 from Outer Space and Glen or Glenda? perhaps, or Troll 2. And then there is William and Kate: The Movie.
