This high school reworking of A Midsummer Night's Dream never really takes flight, but neither is it the preening misfire the first half promises.
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02/12/09
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Were the World Mine (2008)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:5
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.6/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2008 Limited
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Top CriticWere the World Mine is seriously uneven. If it displays considerable imagination and creativity, it also lapses too often into smug, campy silliness.
12/12/08
Top CriticEditorial Review Writer-producer-director Tom Gustafson's musical fantasy Were the World Mine, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is mostly delightful.
12/12/08
Top CriticA diverting Chicago-made export, director and co-writer Tom Gustafson's gay fantasia on Shakespearean themes is set in a socially stratified private school ruled by the rugby jocks but about to be sent into a tizzy thanks to the magic of Shakespeare.
12/12/08
Top CriticThere are times when it is safe to say that a labor of love is love's labor lost, and, reader, this is one of them.
12/05/08
Top CriticWere the World Mine follows the teen musical formula but renders its material with admirable lushness and intelligence.
11/21/08
Top CriticAn ambitious gay musical fantasy inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom Gustafson's Were the World Mine is far better in concept than execution. The shoestring budget hurts.
11/21/08
Top CriticWere the World Mine, an indie alternative to Disney's High School Musical franchise, is a small, endearing film.
11/21/08
Top CriticThis picture dares to summon the spirit of the Bard as well as the ghost of Arthur Freed and succeeds as a rousing, warm-hearted spectacle.
07/31/08
Top CriticThe clunky script keeps pulling everything to an earthbound level well below the desired airy realm.
06/10/08
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