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Not Even Cate Can Save Liz 2

Posted Oct 12, 07 11:57 AM CDT in Gossip Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Nobody can bear to say a bad word about Cate Blanchett, star of Elizabeth: The Golden Age," despite agreeing that the film itself is a big gooey mess. "Cate Blanchett can do anything," writes Peter Travers in Rolling Stone, "but she can't save this creaky sequel." Most agree with Roger Ebert: "We lose sight of the humans behind the dazzle of the production."

Liz 2 "overdresses and ultimately abandons what drew us to its 1998 predecessor in the first place: an intimate embrace with history," writes Desson Thomson in the Washington Post. But Cate still does her darnedest, as does Clive Owen as Walter Raleigh, whom Manohla Dargis of the New York Times calls a "smoldering slab of man meat."

Sources Metacritic, Entertainment Weekly, RogerEbert.com, Rolling Stone

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Universal Pictures provided this photo of Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth   (Associated Press)
Actress Cate Blanchett and director Shekhar Kapur attend a Cinema Society & W Magazine hosted screening of "Elizabeth" at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan...   (Associated Press)
Cate Blanchett arrives for the gala of 'Elizabeth The Golden Age' during the the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007. (AP PHOTO/CP,Jonathan Hayward)   (Associated Press)
Cate Blanchett stands at the side of the stage during a news conference for 'Elizabeth The Golden Age' during the the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Canadian...   (Associated Press)
This image provided by Universal Studios shows Cate Blanchett reprising the role she originated in the Academy Award-nominated "Elizabeth," returning in a historical thriller laced with treachery and...   (Associated Press)
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