Although www.IMDb.com gives this a good user rating, I cannot say I enjoyed the experience hence my personal rating of 5/10.I watched the first 15 minutes but just saw professional actors posing and saying their lines in a third rate amateur fashion so I skipped to the final 10 minutes to see whether the acting had "picked up" but was again disappointed.I can only take Dickens on the screen in small doses anyway.Obviously in the 1830s melodramatic acting was in vogue but we viewers have progressed since natural styles were adopted by modern directors & actors to produce a more naturalistic effect.I particularly dislike it when ladies "swoon", apparently passing out when incurring the slightest shock to their delicate systems.One character actor I noticed was the rotund man who played Friar Tuck in the ITV 1950s children's production of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene.
Review of The Pickwick Papers
