Respect for making something that cringey and yet still watchable and reasonably chucklesome. Quite liked the idea - felt v much like a childhood daydream I'd sometimes have.
I don't think I have it in me to watch Ed Sheeran sort of act ever again though (I'm genuinely impressed he was a good sport about this because the implication I sensed was that he too is just a middling talent who won the cosmic lottery).
This was fun & I really enjoyed how the multilingualism accentuated the disunited variety of the faiths that make a Church.
A highlight: wide-eyed Fiennes gazing in bewilderment at Tucci - his Pope-elect - as his scheming nature is revealed and innocently yelping: "I thought we were here to do the will of God" - sounded a lot like an early Alan Partridge sketch to me
* a tiny nerdy point - it was weird how that ending seemed to be…
Re-watched this to see if I just got carried away by it when I watched it at the start of 2023, but no. This is just a sensational offering.
Watched on flight with Ged & Ped - think we all agreed this was fantastic.
Really earned some very poignant moments. Another one I'd put in the category of 'sometimes the parental figure needs the child figure just as much or more than the child needs the parent'.
