GOSH - God, Oh So Horrible

Give anyone, anywhere in the world 42 million dollars, a free state-of-the-art venue and unlimited access to volunteers and they could come up with a two-hour spectacle which is pleasing to the eye and the ear. But appealing to the palate of an international audience of billions is a much taller order and Danny Boyle’s nonsensical epic fused a British broth as tasteless as an NHS soup.

 The real challenge, Mr Boyle, is not just to tell a story, but to tell it in a way that is intelligent, compelling, interesting, creative, appealing and, oh yeah, relevant. Producing a 120 minute long summary of the stereotypes Britain is famous the world over is none of the above. It is simply not enough to tick all the boxes in the brief; challenging the brief and enhancing it with a more universal perspective would have made more justice to the generous funding your project received.