This `` prestige '' production is at heart a minor road-show carnival . Hathaway looks happy enough channeling Liza Minnelli for her tremulous rendition of the Susan Boyle-appropriated anthem Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter mug and prance as comic-relief grifters . The film has been described by one critic as " an exercise in the art of being funny without ever making you laugh, or even smile.
This `` prestige '' production is at heart a minor road-show carnival . Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter mug and prance as comic-relief grifters . The film has been described by one critic as " an exercise in the art of being funny without ever making you laugh, or even smile.