You can mock this film if you like, but it remains watchable throughout. And the ears have it when the eyes don't.

If the composer's shade could hear the words this script has put in his mouth it really would be a case of "roll over, Beethoven", right there in his grave.

A great example of that time-honoured genre, the biopic so silly it plays like a spoof.

Earnest but lackluster period biopic on the final days of the mentally tortured deaf composer Ludwig von Beethoven.