Average Rating: 6.4/10
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Emily Blunt shines as Victoria in this romantic but plodding royal portrait.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 7
Emily Blunt shines as Victoria in this romantic but plodding royal portrait.
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Director Jean-Marc Vallée takes the helm for this look at the turbulent early years of Queen Victoria (Emily Blunt), who was crowned at the age of 18, and whose ill-fated marriage to Prince Albert (Rupert Friend) would later prompt her into a life of mournful seclusion. Graham King and Martin Scorsese produce a film penned by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Dec 18, 2009 Wide
Apr 20, 2010
$10.9M
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This Victoria is not particularly Victorian, but then she is young; and everyone wants a piece of her, politically speaking. Emily Blunt is lovely and strong-minded as the Young Vic.
This may be the perfect shared entertainment for daughters just growing out of their princess phase and mothers with their own challenges balancing love and work.
The way this story is told is just basically by people reading letters in voiceover while you look at beautiful furniture.
I wonder: Was the director of The Young Victoria wearing a corset right alongside Emily Blunt? This is one tightly constricted period drama.
It's a muddled but plush experience overall, and if you're a royalist completist or a historical romantic, you'll probably have a decent time. As much as Blunt may have wanted the role, though, I'm not sure it suits her.
You don't have to be a royalist to be moved by beautifully staged coronation and wedding moments, and composer Ilan Eshkeri scores such scenes with music so thrilling you'll feel you've got a front-row seat to the real thing.
Emily Blunt joins the ranks of great screen monarchs.
The Young Victoria is an attractive film. While many period pieces overwhelm with flashy production design in order to get attention, the stellar art direction found here is luscious yet never vulgarly so.
Victoria's Secrets: Octomom plus one party animal who wears the pants, or rather crown in the family, and later for Charles Dickens.
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Quite a bit dry, even for a historical drama.
Blunt's performance, restrained and fiery, holds together the personal and the political threads of this handsomely mounted drama.
Consistently engaging, with an appealing sense of relevance for today's audiences.
A veddy proper film that wouldn't presume to misbehave with an ounce of unnecessary melodrama and abandon. We are amused and entertained but not terribly so.
Es el típico producto de calidad que se aprecia más que nada por sus valores de producción (y aquí son realmente excepcionales) y por un elenco, en este caso británico, donde se luce especialmente la estupenda Emily Blunt.
Rich in personal drama, political intrigue and royal pageantry but also satisfyingly compact.
The life of a princess isn't necessarily a fairy tale.
This is Blunt's chance to follow in the footsteps of Gwenyth Paltrow, Anne Hathaway and Keira Knightley in becoming a leading lady in a period piece.
A passable depiction of what looks to be a rather unspectacular slice of history.
...worth seeing for Emily Blunt's radiant performance as Victoria and for the eye-popping recreations of life and ritual at the English court.
Plush, plodding stroll through the dowager queen's early years
A full package period romance, from the performances to the costumes to the lush setting and the rich score.
Victoria led a very controlled and protected life as heir to the throne. Everyone wanted to manipulate her. The movie covers the early years of her reign and her romance with Albert. Good movie and good cast.
March 2, 2009
Super Reviewer
Besides the creepy syntax that was Princess Victoria's upbringing, there was a veil over the true politics that brought about the royals reforms later on in their reign. The uproar that was England only came to a stead in accordance with Victoria's life. Of course, this film was far more providential of a love story.
July 13, 2010Super Reviewer
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