Very good movie but need to read the book as well (either before or after the movie). As most movies, it doesn't cover all the trials and tribulations that the author went through during that time period that really make the story meaningful and deep.
The worse type of movie to have to sit through is a bad comedy. A bad drama or a bad action movie are tolerable because there are other things to distract you. But a bad comedy with bad joke lines one after the other is really hard to sit through. The jokes just more and more annoying as the movie continutes. That is why I got up and left the movie theater after about an hour into this movie. The plot had the potential for a good comedy, but it was so badly written that it made the good actors in it seem like bad actors. Don't waste your time seeing it.
This movie was great because it was full of funny but yet smart scenes. I don't like dumb comedy and this movie was anything but that. All the actors performed really well.