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| William And Kate Movie |
Starring: Camilla Luddington, Nico Evers-Swindell
With less than a week to go until the Royal Wedding, the media frenzy is hitting overdrive, and now, we have possibly the most cringeworthy addition yet: William and Kate – The Movie.
The film, which follows the couple from their very first meeting at St Andrews University, through the trials and tribulations of their relationship, was made by Lifestyle in the US, and aired today on Channel 5 on this side of the pond.
At 1hour 45minutes once the inevitable ad breaks which come with made for tv movies are added in, the film feels long, and perhaps it would be more easily digested in an hour, as currently its cringe inducing style just feels like it outstays it’s welcome.
The film also takes some serious liberties with the truth for the sake of keeping the narrative going. There are certain scenes which just don’t come across as even vaguely believable, and are pushing the bounds of even what is acceptable in cheesy rom-com territory.
One particularly funny sequence sees the future king serenade his beloved in a karaoke bar to show her that he is sorry. If this genuinely happened, I’ll eat my own hat (or one of the ones which the royal women will wear come Friday).
As the film reaches it’s finale – the proposal in Kenya – the CGI backdrop is just shocking to look at, and it makes you wonder why they even bothered to show it, as the penultimate scene could have closed the film just as well, without bringing it down any further into the mire.
That being said, while the film – which was made on a shoestring budget – is almost unforgivably bad, it actually succeeds in being so bad it verges on incredibly funny.
Taking a script that’s so bad it feels like it was written over lunch, and a series of actors who I honestly don’t believe know the meaning of the word, the overall combination genuinely makes something far better than the sum of its parts.
