This second Downton Abby movie feels like more of a movie then the first one. Or rather it feels like one of those Holiday specials they sometimes do on British television, only this one doesn't have to do with Christmas. Or it feels like a couple episodes of the show back to back. It has a valedictory, closure element to the ending but dosen't feel so built around it the way the first movie did.
I think what helps it more the anything is spliting up the large cast for most of the movie, as nice as it is to see everyone together, like in the wedding sequence that opens the film. Most of the movie is split between the shooting of a film at Downton, with major plot elements taken from 'Singing in the Rain', and something of a mystery concerning another convienient inheratince, this one a villa in the south of France. Anyway I enjoyed the film, as did the largerly older and female audiance I saw it with. ***1/2 for the initated, and probably a confused ** for people who see it blind with no knowledge of the character inter relationships.
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