Elizabeth - The Golden Age DVD

Advantages: Fantastic clothes, great architecture
Disadvantages: A bit too creative in its intepretation of history

...key bits. ******************************** Elizabeth the Golden Age is a wonderful feast of frocks and soaring ceilings - fab architecture, atmospheric floaty fabrics, great wigs, gorgeous gowns and very little evidence that the writer/director/whoever actually gave a damn about any kind of historical accuracy. Cate Blanchett is back again reprising a role that established her credibility as a proper actress and putting in a performance that suggests ...
...I've not seen the original Elizabeth film but I have to conclude that it must have been better than its successor. If the first had been similar it's hard to imagine that it could have got funding for a follow up. Elizabeth the first - or Elizabeth as she'd have been then, obviously not realising that we'd have our own good Queen Bess 400 years later - is now in her mid-50s and the Catholics are revolting. The Catholics for the purposes of this film ... Read review

Advantages: Continues the lovely story of Elizabeth.
Disadvantages: Was slightly dissapointing and was weaker than the first story.

...Cate Blanchett returns. Nearly a decade after she captured the attention of audiences and critics with the stunning Elizabeth, she returns again to wow us all with the newest film about the virgin queen. This was gripping and tough stuff. It was moving and gave a brilliant insight into the life of a Tudor woman, first queen of England and a true, noble and brave person. This second film is as equally as brilliant as the first, although somehow not quite as moving. It begins in 1585, decades after the protestant queen has been crowned and yet still Elizabeth is still under attack. It shows perhaps in more insight, Elizabeth's life, although there is less of this and more politics. But true to the film the crew of Elizabeth still make it interesting and unusual. This is not as good as the true Elizabeth as it has less witty lines... Read review

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