Before I review The Young Victoria, a review that will not be favorable (but nor will it be totally negative), something from the pages of history, and also something, furthermore, you will not see in the movie, which is about how Prince Albert won Queen Victoria’s hand and not about what happened to his hand after his death (the subject of this little piece of history): After Prince Albert’s death on December 14, 1861, Queen Victoria, who deeply loved her husband and outlived him by 40 years, often went to bed holding a plaster cast of Albert’s hand. One could make a whole movie, two or even three hours long, of a big bed, a moon in the window, a plaster hand, and a sleeping queen.
Sadly, The Young Victoria has no sleeping queen, or moonlight in the window, but instead it shows us the queen as a sickly teen, the queen as a young woman, the queen being manipulated by crafty politicians, the queen and her dog, the queen at a dinner party (long table, lots of food, the boorish king yelling at some poor lady), the queen in a carriage, the coronation of the queen, the queen falling in love with Albert, the queen holding Albert’s hand—if only the film ended right there (the hand)—the queen marrying Albert, Albert demanding power and respect from the queen, and so on.
Why was this film made? I do not know. The young Victoria is played by an attractive actress, Emily Blunt (everyone knows that Victoria’s appearance did not exactly stir the soul), and Paul Bettany gives a great performance as the crafty Lord Melbourne (Bettany is one of the most underrated actors of our time). The film is well made and all of that, but one would much prefer to see a film about that chamber, that moonlight, that moonlit bed, that sleeping queen, and that white and moon-brilliant hand in her hand. 
Wow. This review helps me so much in deciding whether I should see the film or not.
@1: Maybe you should be more assertive.
That, or there’s something called Rotten Tomatoes. Or Google. Or the newspaper.
“boorish king yelling at some poor lady”? Wow, how observant of you. This review tells me only that you were disinterested in the subject before you arrived. You are the boorish one here.