Roy Scourfield

Grrr. Just wrote a review and it didnt post!

Big CGI fantasy. Shmaltzy, predictable and seemingly hardly worth the enormous effort that went into it. With tints of ' The Greatest Showman' , I think that flying elephants should be left as animations where there is no interference from what is presented as real by mixing CGI and normal filming. Cartoon Dumbo- endearing, real life Dumbo- incongruous.

As a Queen fan before they were big big time, I thought it dwelled too much on Freddie's negativity. I always thought he was someone who loved life and who was essentially joyous but the film did not convey any of that. The screenplay, when not showing the band live was dull, some of the dialogue not that audible. All we ended up with was bits of drama pushed in between the big songs. Surely Freddie Mercury was not as two dimensional as he is portrayed. I ended up thinking, would Freddie have enjoyed watching this as the sum of his rich but mercilessly short lifetime?