content: The customer reviewer from Winston-Salem who posted comments on 8-18-99 expressed my views perfectly. Actaully, it was so terrible I couldn't stand it and turned it off after about 20 minutes. In its favor I can only think to say that at least Paltrow is graceful and attractive; her acting wasn't bad but couldn't overcome the absolutely awful awful script; Dench was inoffensive and may have lent relief from the misery later in the film if she had been featured more and if I had been able to bring myself to watch. Why hasn't anyone commented on how ill Fiennes looked (like a walking corpse)? It struck me as a 90s version of a bad 50s historical adaptation (I know this wasn't an adaptation)...Tony Curtis et al. If you like anachronistic, dumbed-down, almost-lowest-common denominator historical comedy, you'll like this....I prefer Monte Python: at least they have honest pretensions.