for the most part each season of downton abbey' consisted of eight episodes plus
a Christmas special so you can imagine my skepticism as an avid fan that a mere
two hours back at Downton would be as satisfying but it is because boy did
they pack that two hours full of drama and on that note the movie starts with a
refresher that covers all six seasons and while I've seen all six seasons I
really did appreciate the refresher because I was surprised at how much I've
forgotten like daredevil was on Downton Abbey I didn't remember that that was a
fun little bit and they had a lot of fun with the refresher making you know
cracking jokes and you know poking fun at the fact that when you when you
condense it like that for all its sophisticated glamour and UK history
Downton Abbey is without a doubt a good old-fashioned soap opera ridiculously so
so many crazy storylines of so many laughs during that refresher and
throughout this whole film I went to the fan event and people were really having
a good time with it it's it's it's fanservice but I think very good
fanservice and this movie continues in the grand tradition of a crazy soap
opera except for a revelation at the end of the movie which I felt was genuinely
sad and also in my opinion unnecessary I mean if somebody doesn't want to come
back for any more movies they can have their they can deal with their business
situation off screen thank you very much I don't need to see that within the
actual film I guess they didn't want anyone to come back to them I couldn't
they wanted maybe to officially close the door and have no way that they could
be tempted back or someone could try and bother them to negotiate for their
return but I didn't again I didn't like it and
I thought it and in the movie on a bit of a sour note which again wasn't
necessary but as for this being a movie the production values did seem a bit
higher than on the show they had a few more locations to be on Downton I liked
the train station for instance at the beginning you saw a little bit more of
the town but Downton Abbey the show I think always had really good production
values so the point here is to get more story for the story to continue and
continue it does so now as you've seen from the trailers
I don't want to give anything away but we've seen in the trailers that the big
event here is that the king and queen come to visit Downton and it was a
welcome change of pace that that wasn't Queen Elizabeth because I adore the
crown but I need a break I mean I think I've had a little bit too
much of Elizabeth in our family especially with all the real life things
have been going on lately just a little bit too much in the news and I want to
be I want to be fresh for when the crown season 3 returns in just a month or so
again I love that show very good kind of in some ways the new Downton now as with
the as is so often the case with royalty there are more figure heads and the real
story is how everybody else reacts to them and in front of them that's all
I'll say so obviously with such a big cast and only two hours not everyone is
going to get a juicy storyline Tom Branson is actually the big star here
for reasons you will see and Lady Mary is certainly by his side for a decent
chunk of the film and during one pivotal scene but she doesn't get very much to
do overall and doesn't I think have very much of an emotional arc to deal with
right there was a nice parallel drawn between her and Maggie Smith's
characters that I hadn't noticed before and I found it very touching I thought
that was nice Dame Maggie Smith of course is given a whole tea service of
zingers which she delivers with her trademark zeal Edith and her husband
Bertie also have a number of scenes but they don't make much of an impression
especially because Edith has gone back to whining mostly it's a shame
considering how far her character came over the six seasons of the show Imelda
Staunton also shows up with the very juicy twist regarding the future of
Downton but unfortunately Robert and Cora who we all love are pretty much
benched it's the downstairs crew that really
gets to shine with a clever scheme that only Downton could dream up Thomas and
Daisy have perhaps the most screen time out of the group and Maz Mosley gets one
truly fabulous scene but still it's more of an ensemble downstairs there's a lot
of talk about the end of the elite and that regular people are moving to the
forefront which come to think of it is reflected in this movie the downstairs
workers and Tom become the focus of the story all the others fade away into
history right which is what's happened and some degree is
still in the process of happening in the UK but still there's a romance to the
past which is why the UK makes so many historical shows and we in America love
them so much too as well and I think all over the world they're enjoyed and the
movie ends with a ball with a live orchestra playing the most beautiful
music and what I went home after seeing the movie I went to I turned on my
iPhone I got the Apple music and I listened to some johann strauss ii just
so i could spend a little more time in the romance of the past and as and if
this movie does well I suspect we'll all return to Downton once more and maybe
multiple times as it continues to march into the future so that's my review of
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