PLANET SICK-BOY: http://www.sick-boy.com
Never before have the great Bard's words sounded more clunky than here in Michael Hoffman's (One Fine Day) screen adaptation of Shakespeare's whimsical romance. What the Puck happened?
You can't blame the story – it's a classic. But why does it take a full 60 minutes for Hoffman's script to really get moving? You can't blame the production crew (featuring Oscar winners for Howards End and The Age of Innocence) – they create a wonderfully lush dream world. But its leafy green paradise is almost obscured by a bigger, brighter, olive-hued disaster.
That's right – I'm talking about Calista Flockhart's teeth, and the way she shrieks each line sort of makes you want to jam your finger down her throat, too. Love may make fools of us all, but Ally McAnnoying sets a whole new standard. (1:55 – PG-13 for adult situations and brief nudity)
The review above was posted to the
rec.arts.movies.reviews newsgroup (de.rec.film.kritiken for German reviews).
The Internet Movie Database accepts no responsibility for the contents of the
review and has no editorial control. Unless stated otherwise, the copyright
belongs to the author.
Please direct comments/criticisms of the review to relevant newsgroups.
Broken URLs inthe reviews are the responsibility of the author.
The formatting of the review is likely to differ from the original due
to ASCII to HTML conversion.
Related links: index of all rec.arts.movies.reviews reviews