The Da Vinci Code

Preposterous film about piffling nonsense, an adaptation of an appalling book really. Cutting away all the baloney about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and international conspiracies, Audrey Tatou sounds like she's pretending to be French, just as Tom Hanks pretends to act. Ian McKellern, somehow, on occasion, shows some restraint in delivering awful lines to some extent but fails miserably. It must be the mind numbing stupidity of the non jokes about tea and coffee,  let alone god and Jesus. The only controversy that remains is that how something so banal could be made and then treated seriously than someone other than Dan Brown.