Review of Miss Potter (2006) by Daved. — 10 Jan 2007
"Potter" periodically brings Potter's charming drawings to life in elegantly animated sequences that are as delightful and lyrical as the rest of the film is stilted and clumsy. Miss Potter huffs and puffs but fails to work up much dramatic steam.
This attractive, superficial stab at biography, with Renée Zellweger in the title role, is more concerned with a lonely woman's quest for acceptance and love than with an author's worldly achievements.
This much sweetness and light in a movie is all very well. But there's a reason that recipes for cake and cookies call for a pinch of salt. In Miss Potter, there is only a grain or two -- not enough to dilute the sugary overload.
The film is the cinematic equivalent of a delicate English tea cake whose substance is buried under too many layers of icing. Very disapointing performance and very dull movie.
This review of Miss Potter (2006) was written by Daved. on 10 Jan 2007.
Miss Potter has generally received positive reviews.
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