San Francisco Chronicle by Carla Meyer
To earnest for its own good. Sincere and heartfelt, it's the kind of family film that might be at home on cable.
New Zealand · 2001
Rated PG · 1h 45m
Director Mark J. Gordon
Starring Sally Andrews, Anna Sheridan, Mark Clare, Alison Routledge
Genre Drama, Family
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Her Majesty is a 2005 coming of age film about a young girl who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth II comes to visit her small hometown.
San Francisco Chronicle by Carla Meyer
To earnest for its own good. Sincere and heartfelt, it's the kind of family film that might be at home on cable.
Unimaginative, exasperating film, hopefully but fruitlessly recycled after the success of 2002's ebullient Whale Rider.
Despite its faltering touch with the story's darker, more melodramatic threads, Her Majesty nonetheless proves winning overall thanks to a predominant emphasis on nostalgia, whimsy (heroine's royal audience fantasies include one full-on production number) and droll-to-broad humor.
It's as if Gordon feared his film's none-too-subtle suggestion that kids should ask questions and decided to provide answers instead, tying up his story with a phony happy ending.
Chicago Tribune by Robert K. Elder
Against "Whale Rider's" well-acted, intimate story, Gordon's film feels like an endless spiral of sub-par soap-opera acting, mired in trite, predictable dialogue.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Her Majesty is the kind of movie where you start out smiling, and then smile more broadly, and then really smile, and then realize with a sinking heart that the filmmakers are losing it.
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