

Fifty Shades Darker is every bit as baffling and banal as you remember. The old romantic!įans of the books will be relieved to hear that all is as it should be from that day forward. She swiftly recovers from that nasty case of backbone and can barely muster more than a girlish tsk when Christian (Jamie Dornan) purchases every Ana portrait in the show lest another man should dare look at what is solely his. We open with Ana (Dakota Johnson) gamely getting on with her life for entire days before Christian sends her a beautiful bouquet of memory-erasing roses and stalks her to her friend Jose’s photographic show.

And replacing those lady-balls with jingling love balls instead. Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed were to be faithfully adapted from the novels and simultaneously shot ensuring that her literary shit sandwich would make up for in continuity what it lacked in plausibility or originality. Tasking husband Niall Leonard with writing the screenplays (in collaboration with James) and selecting James Foley to direct. Taylor-Johnson and Marcel took an irritating Mary Sue and gave her flesh, snark and lady-balls.Į L James and her fellow producers took the decision to go a different way with parts two and three. When her Anastasia said goodbye there was a triumphant finality to her words that an audience could truly believe. Taking E L James’ preposterous and childish source material and (together with screenwriter Kelly Marcel) crafting something pleasing on the eye and inoffensive to the soul.

Sam Taylor-Johnson did an impressive job of helming Fifty Shades of Grey. HeyUGuys had the same reaction when we read the Fifty Shades novels. Escaping with tear stains on her cheeks but a new resolve in her heart to never let that mercurial Christian Grey close enough to hurt her again. The last time we saw Anastasia Steele she was walking away from her abuser. Unfortunately we need to speak of Fifty Shades Darker. You may read our 4 star Batman review here. This Valentine’s weekend our favourite brooding, hard-bodied billionaire returns to the big screen with a brand new adventure.
