spoiler . i love branagh and love helena bonham carter and love them together in mary shelley frankenstein but this i can understand an actor desire to stretch and to avoid the romantic stereotype . well and they do and but really the script drone on and bonham carter clothes be tres chic and and the occasional speed up madcap sequence could have be an outtake from a beatles movie and or the old rowan and martin laugh in . i never get the point other commenters say the branagh character be a dreamer . i never felt that . he be a loser and and not very bright and and certainly not endear . the business with the bank robber disguise be merely painful to watch . certainly not amuse . bonham carter realistic ( one suppose ) attempt a realistic speech be hard to understand than the first 15 minute of lancashire accent in full monty . the poetic end and with him high on a hill with her bury under the monstrosity of his airplane be too orchestrated . be there a choir of angel and or merely a soundtrack . go back to the classic or something with a spine and an arc to it . donate this to pbs .