Miss Potter
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson, Emily Watson, Ewan McGregor, Renée Zellweger Director: Chris Noonan Brand: Wellspring Media INC Producer: Arnold Messer Producer: Bob Weinstein Producer: Colin Vaines Producer: Corey Sienega Producer: David Kirschner Producer: David Thwaites Writer: Richard Maltby Jr. DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 92 minutes Published: 2007-06-01 DVD Release Date: 2007-06-19 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Model: 80174 Studio: Weinstein Company Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Miss Potter
Movie Review: Hideous 101 - Renee Zellweger's Worst Ever Performance
Summary: 1 Stars
First Question - Was Beatrix Potter really a vacuous, loopy, self-loathing retard who saw fairies and bunnies all day long?
Second Question - Which brilliant mind decided that equally ridiculous actress Renee Zellweger should step into the actors' seat for this trainwreck of a film?
Third Question - How did a film so obviously idiotic and ill thought-out possibly garner enough funding to complete production?
If you knew the answers to that, I'd be your friend.
The truth is - this is terrible. I'm not a fan or hater of Renee Zellweger, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that she is woefully miscast in a horribly written role. Now heres the thing, we have the story of childrens' author Beatrix Potter - and the film paints her in this saintly glow (with ethereal light pouring in on her face every now and then - seriously!), and completely misses the point that she was probably a normal woman who just liked to draw and write. I can understand the need to create melodrama for the sake of it, but this really took things too far.
The problems are two-fold - the writers realized that the story of Potter as a person wasn't terribly interesting and milked the `its-so-hard-to-be-a-woman-in-this-era' card for all it was worth. This becomes tedious after a point. Add to that the magical visions she has, and the books metaphorically drawing themselves. They wasted at least twenty good minutes on this convoluted garbage, and if I was a fifteen year old ballerina, I'd probably be weeping during these scenes, but I'm not.
What I do realize though, is how limited an actress Renee actually is. If you hated her in `Jerry Maguire' and every other film she has been in, here is a chance to see her debase herself to extents even she probably did not think possible! In fact, if you watch closely, all she seems to be doing is either grinning or wallowing in self pity. The scenes where she is `lost in her own world' should be seen to be believed.
The primary concern I have with this, is that Renee comes across as severely drugged and cerebrally disabled during the course of this film. There is no other term for it. As for the Ewan McGregor angle, this is one actor who has been consistently wasted since the last episode of the `Star Wars' franchise, and watching him opposite Zellweger here is painful indeed, as there is obviously no chemistry on any level.
Heres the bottom line - there is obviously an audience for this trash. Granted, I'm not it, but if you're a male or female with reasonable intelligence above the age of 25, I implore you - avoid this like the plague. This falls into the `movies so bad, they're not even bad enough to be called camp' category, and it has terrible screenwriting, and even worse performances from all concerned. When it got over, I was like, that's it? THIS was what Potter was all about? Granted, drawing bunnies all day didn't seem like the most trying thing around, but still, if her life was really this boring, I can only imagine how life must have been like during that era.
Overly distraught, and evenly grotesque, "Miss Potter" is an abomination you should avoid.
Watch this only to discover the uselessness that is Renee Zellweger, if you must.
One Star - and thats for the books the original author wrote.