A Royal Night Out

An imaginative fish out of water in a unique time in our history, fully realised through first-class design and plummy acting; happy and glorious indeed.

Battling through the predictable script with estimable, though mostly groan-inducingly clipped English, the film's cast are lumbered with plot machination after plot machination

It might help if screenwriters Trevor De Silva and Kevin Hood could hold to a consistent point of view, but it's never clear whether they and their director are playing these (largely fictionalised) proceedings straight or for satiric value.

Fluffy, fun and all-round charming stuff.

A Royal Night Out goes the zany romantic-comedy route in its fictional depiction of two British princesses partying with commoners at the end of World War II.