Movie Review - Keeping Mum

Maggie Smith is mum, and you won't find that out until 90% way through the film. I'm reviewing the DVD version of this and I want to start by saying the DVD itself was faulty. The film was in 16:9 and the DVD doesn't automatically set itself to that, I had to manually alter the players settings then change the TV as well to actually be able to watch the whole screen. I think the "watchable screen area" was too big for even a widescreen TV on 16:9. So that spoiled the film before I even started watching it. As for the people who reviewed it whose comments appear on the back of the DVD itself, were they watching another film? this isn't even remotely funny, Rowan Atkinson is wasted in this movie.

to the reviewer who said he found Rowan as a performer on the TV in the 1970's, sorry but no you didn't. Rowan didn't start working on the TV in the UK until the very early 1980's. the film starts out 43 years ago with a woman having killed her husband and his mistress and chopped them up and put them into her travelling trunk. she is jailed and then released into the present day where she changes her name and becomes the housekeeper of a vicar, his wife and their son and daughter. the plot of this is almost Mary Poppins apart from all the killings that Maggie smith does. she comes and helps each member of the family with their character flaws and personal problems. the end is rubbish.