Miss Potter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 29, 2006
7.1
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Generally favorable reviews based on 51 Ratings
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BobbyTimothyJan 10, 2007
Endearing without being especially engaging. Maybe Miss Potter will be best appreciated on video when you will intuitively know when to turn it off. On the other hand, Potter's pastel illustrations, which often come to life to her and Endearing without being especially engaging. Maybe Miss Potter will be best appreciated on video when you will intuitively know when to turn it off. On the other hand, Potter's pastel illustrations, which often come to life to her and to the camera's eye, deserve the antolarger canvas. Tough call. At 92 minutes, the film has the economy of a Potter story, but not the shapeliness or the zip. A scenic, well-behaved account of Potter's life and times. Undeniably disappointing yet impressive at times as a overdone dull biopic.… Expand
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KeithAug 3, 2007
Pleasant and unremarkable. Zellweger shows great pluck, and Emily Watson blows wonderful, fresh air into the movie during her too few scenes. For the most part, the movie doesn't make any real attempt to dig very deep into the person of Pleasant and unremarkable. Zellweger shows great pluck, and Emily Watson blows wonderful, fresh air into the movie during her too few scenes. For the most part, the movie doesn't make any real attempt to dig very deep into the person of Potter. I would have probably given the movie a 7, but I found the animation sequences too cornball even for a movie about a woman who drew bunnies and ducks. A good movie for those that like their biopics entirely not offensive or insightful, but there are no egregious missteps, other than a lack of any real character excavation.… Expand
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TroyMartinaJan 10, 2007
The twee romance was too much for me, though the movie's first half follows in fascinating detail the innovations Warne introduced to popularize illustrated picture books for children. Zellweger is certainly likable as Beatrix, but as The twee romance was too much for me, though the movie's first half follows in fascinating detail the innovations Warne introduced to popularize illustrated picture books for children. Zellweger is certainly likable as Beatrix, but as an upper-class English lady of a century ago, she enunciates her words as if sucking a lemon -- you almost start to wonder if you've stumbled into a satire of "Masterpiece Theatre. Zellweger dusts off her Bridget Jones accent - and a constellation of annoying vocal and facial tics - for Miss Potter, an unrelentingly mediocre, TV-movieish biopic of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter.… Expand
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DaveD.Jan 10, 2007
"Potter" periodically brings Potter's charming drawings to life in elegantly animated sequences that are as delightful and lyrical as the rest of the film is stilted and clumsy. Miss Potter huffs and puffs but fails to work up much "Potter" periodically brings Potter's charming drawings to life in elegantly animated sequences that are as delightful and lyrical as the rest of the film is stilted and clumsy. Miss Potter huffs and puffs but fails to work up much dramatic steam. This attractive, superficial stab at biography, with Renée Zellweger in the title role, is more concerned with a lonely woman's quest for acceptance and love than with an author's worldly achievements. This much sweetness and light in a movie is all very well. But there's a reason that recipes for cake and cookies call for a pinch of salt. In Miss Potter, there is only a grain or two -- not enough to dilute the sugary overload. The film is the cinematic equivalent of a delicate English tea cake whose substance is buried under too many layers of icing. Very disapointing performance and very dull movie.… Expand
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EvelynD.Aug 23, 2007
This was a nice little movie, but nothing about it made it stand out. It was average.
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