Yes, "Wild Mountain Thyme" is just as bad as you've heard it is
🚨 This newsletter includes spoilers for Wild Mountain Thyme. 🚨
Last week I made Craig watch Wild Mountain Thyme with me — I told him I had no idea what it was about except that it was set in Ireland, the accents were apparently terrible, and its final reveal was absolutely bonkers.
Hoo boy. Those reviewers were not lying. This movie stinks and the ending is RIDICULOUS.
Wild Mountain Thyme is vaguely a comedic drama about a couple of Irish families who have neighbouring farms, and the youngest daughter one one, Rosemary (Emily Blunt), is very in love with the youngest son of the other, Anthony (Jamie Dornan). But Anthony has a TERRIBLE SECRET that means he can never marry. There’s a bunch of other stuff in there, too, but that’s the main thrust of the film.
The accents? Awful. Christopher Walken doing an Irish accent? Not good. Emily Blunt’s Irish accent? Incredibly exaggerated. And I know that Dornan is from Northern Ireland, but his attempt at an Irish accent is still laughable. The whole movie is like an uneducated American’s idea of what Ireland is like. I think someone actually says “top o’ the mornin’ to ya” at one point.
But it wasn’t until the big reveal of Anthony’s big secret that I realized how I truly had just wasted 90 minutes of my time, and of Craig’s time. Because the big secret, the reason that Anthony can’t be with Rosemary and can never marry, is…
He thinks he’s a bee.
Yes. Really. Not metaphorically. He thinks he’s a bee.
But Rosemary thinks she’s a swan so it’s okay? So they kiss and get married. The end.
I’m not exaggerating in the least. The movie ended and Craig and I both shouted “WHAT.” How this movie went from “supposedly charming fun in Ireland” to the ending of Bee Movie, I will never understand.
Do not make my mistake and think that the bad reviews and the bonkers ending will result in a so-bad-it’s-good kind of watching experience. That’s not what this is. Wild Moutain Thyme is one of the most baffingly bad movies I’ve seen in years and I wish I could get that time back.
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