Writer Richard Curtis reimagines his 1991 BBC television movie Bernard and the Genie. It is as unimaginative as the title Genie.
Overworked and underappreciated Bernard (Paapa Essiedu) misses his daughter's birthday. His heartless boss Oliver Flaxman (Alan Cumming) asks him to work late at the last minute.
Not only does he miss her birthday, he does not even get the present she wants. It is the final straw for his wife. She leaves Bernard.
A distraught Bernard rubs an old jewellery box and out pops genie Flora (Melissa McCarthy) who can grant Bernard an unlimited number of wishes.
He uses Flora to get his family back together. While Flora holed up in that box for 2000 years takes in the modern world. It consists of pizza and Tom Cruise movies.
While Bernard and the Genie was full of low key charm and took potshots at commercialism. (Bernard was played by Alan Cumming.)
Genie struggles with an actual plot, humour and charm. The premise of the movie and the wishes are wasted.
You would be better off tracking down the television movie that had Lenny Henry as the Genie.
Overworked and underappreciated Bernard (Paapa Essiedu) misses his daughter's birthday. His heartless boss Oliver Flaxman (Alan Cumming) asks him to work late at the last minute.
Not only does he miss her birthday, he does not even get the present she wants. It is the final straw for his wife. She leaves Bernard.
A distraught Bernard rubs an old jewellery box and out pops genie Flora (Melissa McCarthy) who can grant Bernard an unlimited number of wishes.
He uses Flora to get his family back together. While Flora holed up in that box for 2000 years takes in the modern world. It consists of pizza and Tom Cruise movies.
While Bernard and the Genie was full of low key charm and took potshots at commercialism. (Bernard was played by Alan Cumming.)
Genie struggles with an actual plot, humour and charm. The premise of the movie and the wishes are wasted.
You would be better off tracking down the television movie that had Lenny Henry as the Genie.