Love's Labour's Lost

...either you make "40 days and 40 nights" or you make this. Too bad the former was better... The sensual dance routine was the sexiest I've seen in years though. Hot! A really bad sign is that the Director's comment track... Full review

A great performance from all the stars. Lots of fun, lots of glam. Alessandro Nivola and Alicia Silverstone should be a real world couple, they are so hot.... Full review

One would think that with a plot by William Shakespeare and music by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin that this film would have a lot going for it. Unfortunately, it's a stinker. None of the characters draw you in.... Full review

If your looking for stirring Shakespearian dialogue, then no, I admit you will not find it here. But you will find a smile on your face. This movie is hilariously fun to watch. It is meant to be outrageously silly.... Full review

This movie should be taken for what it is... experimental Shakespeare. Those expecting a loyal and painstaking presentation of the bard's work will likely be disappointed. Then again, so would someone searching for intelligence in Zoolander or Dumb and Dumber... Full review

This self-indulgent mess may have put the kibosh on Mr. Branagh's career as an adapter of Shakespeare for the cinema. (Released 4 years ago; not a peep of an adaptation since.) I just finished watching this on cable -- holy... Full review

In DC, I was fortunate to attend performances at the Shakespeare Theatre. A common routine was to adapt a play to another time period. Branagh has done so here, bringing Shakespeare into the 1930s. Atop this, an extremely well-staged musical occurs... Full review

Beautiful words, delightful music, great acting! What could ruin such a mix. The answer, the ego of Kenneth Branagh. He is much too old for the part of a young student. His direction is absurdly literal. For example: probably the... Full review

Love's Labour's Lost is a delightful song and dance compendium of classic song and dance blended with classic literature. The drama and acting are way over the top. But the broad stroke of the actors art is required as an... Full review

Interesting reading the reviews herein. The reviewers either loved or hated it. Some witty shots taken at Branagh's effort to make one of The Bard's weakest comedies into something enjoyable. I mean, c'mon. The play is a story of young... Full review

Irish actor Kenneth Branagh just cannot leave well enough alone. This cast is indescribable in terms of their passion, their commitment, their capability. ... Full Review

But the radical editing of the play--to make room for all that flat footwork--renders the purpose of a number of the characters inexplicable. So when Branagh and company let loose with their show-tunes, they come off like enthusiastic amateurs, tripping gamely but lamely about the set. ... Full Review

Fortunately, other aspects of Love's Labour's Lost are more successful. The songs are grand, harking back to the Astaire-Rogers musicals that cheered up the Depression-weary '30s. ... Full Review

dance it is both effortless and amusing:....Branagh has chosen 10 of the most wonderfully enduring songs....For this reason, Branagh's take shouldn't offend too many Shakespeare purists..... ... Full Review

Love's Labour's Lost practically pulls a viewer into the pool to join the Esther Williams-style fun, so eager is Branagh to make a splash. In his antic all-singing, all-dancing, all-mugging adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost , Kenneth Branagh cuts William Shakespeare down to size to suit a larky artistic vision. ... Full Review

According to Daily Express critic Neil Norman, the Scottish actor "is at home on the stage in a great RSC company as he is at the controls of the Tardis". ... Full Article

You just dont see bands like this anymore.The whole shoegazing, atmospheric, easy-listening-gothic darkwavy movement has all but disappeared into the night, morphing neatly and quietly into the less laboriously-described genres of folk, rock, and ambient music. ... Full Article

It would be neither an exaggeration nor a falsehood to state that Kenneth Branagh owes a lion's share of his reputation to a man who lived half-a-millennium ago. ... Full Article

First off on this one I should probably lay my cards on the table.Love Shakespeare.Think Branagh is a god.Love musicals.Know all the words to pretty much every one of the songs used here. ... Full Article

"Love's Labour's Lost" is a luscious labor of love. As if to prove the two extremes of his affection for the Bard, Kenneth Branagh has followed his four-hour, belt-and-braces version of "Hamlet" with one of the most audacious adaptations of... ... Full Article

U.S. Distributor: Miramax Films Love's Labour's Lost has always been regarded as one of the most enigmatic of Shakespeare's plays. In modern times, it is almost never performed, and, unlike the text of the Bard's major works, it fails to... ... Full Article