My expectations were low and it does drag but it goes off it its own direction, doesn't over do fan service, and carves out its own world, a combination of Cameron Mackintosh and Dickens. Timothee Chamalet is fine - not Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp but his own fresh faced creation.
It's got a good heart, a plucky orphan (that storyline worked for me esp reuniting with mum), people in prison basically doing washing, villains who are real threats, chocolate is amusingly swapped for drugs, Hugh Grant again steals every scene he's in.
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