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Went to see it. Good story. Not much of a film buff but here goes:
Not too impressed with what they had done to it. No singing for a start.
Mr Kingsley majestic as usual. Some crap child acting from the Tommy Steele/Bonnie Langford school of cheese. Sykes was about as scarey as Mrs Miggins with a hot mug of cocoa. Bullseye was a pussy with no real part in the story.
Lots of un necessary scenes (old lady gives him soup, boy falls out of bed, Sykes turns back to London), but then it leapt about like without much of a link to the next scene as though it didn't have the time.
Two completely crap scenes involving a girl at a door and a kid eating cake and a boy with a hoop, turned out they were Polanskis kids..bit indulgent there old boy Roman.
Overall, see it for Kingsley and rent the DVD of the singing version.
Not too impressed with what they had done to it. No singing for a start.
Mr Kingsley majestic as usual. Some crap child acting from the Tommy Steele/Bonnie Langford school of cheese. Sykes was about as scarey as Mrs Miggins with a hot mug of cocoa. Bullseye was a pussy with no real part in the story.
Lots of un necessary scenes (old lady gives him soup, boy falls out of bed, Sykes turns back to London), but then it leapt about like without much of a link to the next scene as though it didn't have the time.
Two completely crap scenes involving a girl at a door and a kid eating cake and a boy with a hoop, turned out they were Polanskis kids..bit indulgent there old boy Roman.
Overall, see it for Kingsley and rent the DVD of the singing version.
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