Much Ado About Nothing Reviews

Has a wit and style you won't find in his kick-ass work for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly or The Avengers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Much Ado About Nothing is a delightfully spirited romp, filled with visual splendor, strong performances and flashes of post-modern absurdity.

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Framed in Whedon's lucid black and white it recalls the feisty romcoms of the Fifties, whilst scenes of subterfuge out on the streets at night employ the visual language of film noir.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The movie brings to life a high-toned summer dreamland ... that exists in a dimensional rift between the Renaissance, the era of My Man Godfrey and now.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

The Elizabethan speech rarely totally flows, the modern setting jars and not all the actors convince. It's as slick as you'd expect, if not a little forgettable. A frothy passion project.

Full Review | Original Score: 3

Super-charged with giddy enthusiasm, Whedon's ensemble brings Shakespeare to life in a riot of boozy passion and slapstick giggles.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Whedon's legendary talent for dense dialogue and wrangling sprawling casts of strong characters into engaging stories has never been put to better use.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

A delightful celebration of Shakespeare's rapier wit...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's a boozy, lusty, all-night party interpretation of Shakespeare that ultimately casts frivolity aside for a disarmingly moving finale.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A sublimely jolly presentation of a delightful play.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Though it's not terrible, neither is it terribly good.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Delivers ye old fashioned entertainment with a slick makeover

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

A self-contained, astutely executed project, with Whedon's old guard giving their all for the sheer joy of performance. Great fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

The movie swings along, with a grace denied to some of Whedon's grander projects ...

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The film's biggest problem is that its Beatrice, played with spunk and spark by Amy Acker, is far more engaging and enchanting than its Benedick.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

The DIY quality is very much part of what makes it charming, and makes it possible to agree to overlook some of the dodgier missteps of acting or staging.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

In setting and tone, Much Ado manages to smoothly present a contemporary vision of the play's original setting of wealth and ease -- this is how the better, effortlessly hipper, half lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.2/10

Nothing revolutionary here, and one could make a pretty strong argument that this film exists so Whedon and his actors could have a weekend in a scenic cottage and get drunk together. But it's never self-indulgent. It's just here to have a good time.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Whedon adapts William Shakespeare's feather-light comedy into a bubbly cocktail party of a movie - and gives his stable of regular actors some of the Bard's meatiest dialogue on which to chew.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

OK, Marvel fan boys. I reluctantly sat through 'The Avengers,' now it's your turn to reciprocate by seeing a more erudite offering from your sainted Joss Whedon.

Full Review | Original Score: B