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I've seen many and various productions of Pirates of Penzance over the years, and find this one strangely colourless. The quality of the singing is fine, but the acting less so. The characters are pretty bland and static and lacking the humour that should be bursting forth. Chorus just stand there. The sets are simplistic to say the least, there's no sense of the rolling, rollicking seas, or the eerie ruins in the second act. Bright red pirate ship deck, plain blue backdrops. The feeling I get is one of an amateur production. Frederic looks bored half the time, the Pirate King does not swash and buckle, the Major General is a bit dodgy. And Ruth's eyes are scary! This is meant to be a romp; it comes across as turgid.
I'm trying to sit through this very difficult movie to the end, but my brain gave up after about half an hour. There is no way to make sense of any of this. Is it supposed to be clever? Funny? (It is funny in parts, I suppose) I knew it would be confusing but I expected to understand some of it. I'm bored, tired, confused and I don't care about any of the characters. It's obviously taken a lot of time and skill to produce all the weird effects, I get that. But what a waste of effort, to my mind. I'm not into alternate realities or violent computer games. I don't see how anyone can make sense of this.
I would hate anyone who hasn't read the story to watch this and think that this is what Dickens wrote. Charles Dickens would not recognise this dark relentless chunk of misery as his warm, witty and engaging coming-of-age story Great Expectations. The only redeeming feature is the acting of Olivia Colman, superb as always, although why make her such a nasty opium addict? The script bears hardly any reference to the book, and the language used is disgraceful. Where are the many light hearted moments, the amusing conversations, the wry observations? I have endured three episodes and have no engagement or sympathy with any of the characters. I do not intend to subject myself to any more of this dross.