The Queen and I

If you've read the book then you'll be dying to see the film. Well don't. Apart from the annoying David Walliams the films a big letdown. Quite short and the actors haven't really been made up to resemble the royals. The book had so much depth and humour. This was made for kids. So you can see how much of a wet fart the film is by comparison. Perhaps see the film first the read the book.

Would've hit the mark if it was written for todays world, but its 25 years too late!

This could have been so much better. Most of the book seemed to have been overlooked. It seemed like they only took the basic premise of the novel with only a couple of threads remaining but those was drastically trimmed to leave a totally too short running time. Would have more sense to make a 6 part half hour series. Waste of an excellent cast

A movie that is intended for family entertainment, and it achieves that very well with a fun cast and a very British style of comedy.

I can only agree with the other comments here: It is situated 20+ years ago without any frame of reference to place the watcher in the time period. Many of the characters are now dead, and unknown to many watchers (Princess Margaret, Queen Mother) etc. Jokes about Princess Di dating Dodi Fayed are obviously not funny in hindsight. It portrays everyone in a nasty manner, 'the Royals' and 'the Poor' are equally shown to be lazy/backbiting/worthless people. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. Watch the brilliant 'The Windors' TV series instead which pokes fun at today's Royals in a playful and very funny way.