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Continuously enjoyable from its action-filled opening to the dazzling final shot...
Kenneth Branagh...has done it again.
The picture is overripe, and with few exceptions, so are the performances.
The key to the film's success is in the acting, especially in the sparks that fly between Branagh and Thompson.
Somehow, the movie feels insubstantial and uninspired.
Director Branagh, who altered the play imaginatively for the screen, gives wonderful import to this silliness from long ago.
Branagh's highly entertaining and accessible take on one of the Bard's zestiest comedies. [Blu-ray]
A joyous romp whose forced jollity is only occasionally wearing.
You can not fault Branagh's enthusiasm and his successful campaign to bring the Bard to the masses.
The DVD is short on extras.
Although Kenneth Branagh's interpretation does much to make Shakespeare's play comprehensible, it ultimately fails to create any kind of enduring watchability.
There's much to commend in Branagh's pruned, international version of Shakespeare's troubling comedy.
A lively and colorful adaptation of Shakespeare's play; Thompson and Branagh are especially fun to watch.
This film is going to entertain even those viewers who care little about Shakespeare and care about his comedies even less.
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