Meghan Markle’s film, Cookie Queens is left with underwhelming reviews in the US following its August 7 release.
Earning roughly £242,000 ($327,000) globally across 446 theaters, their executive production debut missed the top ten and reportedly grossed less than a competing cat-video compilation.
British audiences may not be rushing to the cinema to see it as the critics are left unimpressed with one cinema-goer advising ‘Don’t waste your money’.
The film opened in America on August 7 and follows US girl scouts selling cookies to raise money over a six-week period, an annual tradition since World War I.
US website Variety, which was once a keen supporter of the pair, described the girlhood documentary from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions as ‘too much of a reality-show ramble’.
Critic Owen Gleiberman said the film lacked emotion, writing: ‘Cookie Queens is a movie about precocious American girls learning to work the system, not fight it.’
He added: ‘The movie unfolds entirely in the present and never gives you even a fleeting sense of the past, of how Girl Scout Cookies rose in prominence to become the phenomenon they are today.’
The San Francisco Chronicle added the film is ‘as staged as it is sweet’ with critic Carla Meyer offering a frank appraisal of the regal executive producers’ efforts, suggesting the film ‘contains the same level of spontaneity as their other media projects. That is to say, next to none.’
The UK release date for Cookie Queens has yet to be announced.
