'My Week With Marilyn' A Review

My Week With Marilyn is a movie about a Colin Clark's time with Marilyn Monroe during her filming of The Prince And The Showgirl. The film is based on the real life diary of Colin during this time period and feels more like an imaginative fantasy of what he would have liked the week to be like as opposed to anything resembling reality.

The main character Colin is totally unlikable. He's a spoiled little rich boy who just has to be in the movie business. Because of his families wealth and the ease in which he inserts himself into the making of the movie(his family has connections) he garners no sympathy.

Michelle Williams portrayal of Marilyn Monroe is vapid, two dimensional, and painful to watch. She delivers all dialogue in pseudo-babyspeak. If the movie was an effort to show Marilyn Monroe as anything other than her stereotype(stupid, sexual) it's an absolute failure. If the movie wanted to show Monroe as a caricature it was successful.

The plot is not much to speak of. Colin meets Marilyn and they develop an unstable friendship. The movie ends with her finishing filming and going back to the US. We don't care about either character, they're selfish and so underdeveloped they don't seem like real people. The supporting characters get so little screen time(not to mention actual depth) they have virtually no reason for being.

The other slight was the casting of Williams as Monroe. The worlds most famous voluptuous pin-up shouldn't be played by someone so slight.

All in all it was a huge disappointment. No substance, no depth, no truth.

Don't See It.