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I was very much looking forward to seeing this movie, I like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and this seemed like it was going to be able to show off his talent. I could not have been more wrong. Now, credit where credit is due, the score was great and Taylor-Johnson did the best with what he was given. The quality was brought down by the sketchy CGI (Some looked fine, others terrible) and the atrocious acting from the supporting actors! Granted, the script did no one any favours, but it seemed like a few actors did not even try to make it work. This made it very difficult to stay in the fictional world because the dialogue and the characters felt so disconnected. The main female lead also felt a bit shoe horned in to get the feminism points and it took away character development from some of the other characters. Sony needs to throw in the towel with super hero IPs and stop dragging good actors down with their box office failures.

I do not normally watch medical dramas, but this one caught my attention with the added element of it being on a cruise ship. And it is just that, a medical drama on a cruise ship. Which made it stupidly awesome. Certain things are made better with an added element of cheese, like the Golden Bachelor/Bachelorette. This show is so cheesy and stupid that I will probably keep watching it anyway. It's a perfect, ridiculous, brain cell killing, destress show. Overused jokes? Check. Major plot holes? Check. Nonsensical storytelling? Check. It's basically perfect, if you can handle cringing for an hour.

If the writers/creators of Ella Enchanted opened a history book and thought, yeah I could make that different, it would turn out like this. Throw in some crass British humour and modern music and you'll have this show. I will admit I was sceptical at first, the first episode was underwhelming but I kept with it and I think it was worth it. I usually only watch historical shows if they are accurate, but this show stated from the beginning that it was going to be inaccurate so I can't say it was such a shocker. The Monty python style narrating really pulled the whole show together and it really was quite enjoyable if you are looking for a turn your brain off summer binge. (I'm also a mad sucker for anything enemies to lovers or arranged marriage, and this had both!)