It does amuse me that they took one of the most iconic villains in film history and not only cast the younger versions of him with TWO very bad to average actors, and then had him come across in the writing as a really annoying and whiny person.

Though, on the plus side, Natalie Portman and Kiera Knightley are awesome, and the focus should really have been more on them. Even though the idea of an elected 14 year old queen was kind of stupid.

Also SLJackson was awesome too, as was Ewan McGregor. In fact, just have it the Portman, Knightley, Jackson, MacGregor show, and it'd be fine.