A luscious labor of love.
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07/06/08
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Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:6
Rotten:11
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Interesting idea, poor execution.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Kenneth Branagh's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy sets the action in the last few days before the start of World War II. In the fictional kingdom of Navarre, King Ferdinand (Alessandro... [More]
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McElhone, Alessandro Nivola
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Reviews for Love's Labour's Lost
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Top CriticMaybe Kenneth Branagh should have left the Hollywood musical where he found it, back in the 1930s.
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Top CriticEven though Love's Labour's Lost is, in showbiz terms, a turkey stuffed with chestnuts, you wouldn't trade it for a pot of gold.
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Top CriticMaybe Kenneth Branagh should have left the Hollywood musical where he found it, back in the 1930s.
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Top CriticLove's Labour's Lost hops, bumps and skids along the ground like the flightless creature that it is.
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Top CriticA double travesty -- a triple one, actually, if you consider the quality of the singing and dancing.
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Top CriticFlaws (most of which are minor) aside, Love's Labour's Lost is an enjoyable trifle.
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Top CriticIt's so eager to please, so caught up in its own sunny energies, so seductive to look at, that what might be your resistance never gets off the ground -- or wants to.
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Top CriticWorst of all perhaps is Lost’s smug air of pleasure at how clever it thinks it’s being.
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Top CriticThe producer- director- star- screenwriter is an unexpectedly charming musical lead, pleasantly reminiscent of Jimmy Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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Top CriticEach player ends up performing in a different play.
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Top CriticLove's Labour's Lost is a stink bomb of a movie.
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The froth quickly curdles.
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Top CriticIt's so escapist it escapes even from itself.
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