Exactly what we were promised: ornate, visually beautiful, romantic and staged as the most lavish production in the history of the Hollywood musical. If that's what you like, you'll like it.

So misguided that it threatens to become a spoof worthy of Monty Python or Mel Brooks. When Arthur hisses, "I demand a man's vengeance!" he sounds like Cloris Leachman bleating, "Death to King Louis!" in History of the World: Part I.

Pretty songs but the pacing is laboriously slow

This Camelot could be moved into Disneyland, intact.