"We have no proof, "he cautions, but the implications are clear: Derived from the playthings of nobility, a bourgeois toy became once more abauble of royalty.
Even so, this pretty bauble of a picture -- which looks like it was filmed in a giant snow globe - scrapes together enough invention, exuberance and goofiness to skate over this blatant misstep, and Roberts herself is so willing to give it the old college try you wind up rooting for her regardless.