A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:50
Rotten:24
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Faultless production and shining performances display the Bard's talent propitiously.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's magical comedy of a love-tangled quadrangle shimmers with sumptuous cinematography and a truly stellar cast that includes Kevin Kline, Michelle... [More]
Starring: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart
Director: Michael Hoffman
Reviews for A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A visually delightful but curiously flat adaptation... Full Review |
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Injecting the film with fun and pathos, Kline makes a superb Bottom; it's his play and he acts it to the hilt. Full Review |
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Sporting a shamelessly commercial all-star cast and textually shorn to make a comfortable, diverting two-hour flick, it's the lack of intellectual pretensions that finally makes this version so endearing. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Your high school English teacher would approve, and parts are terrifically enjoyable. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Bathed in sunshine, stardust and star power, this 'Dream' should be required viewing for anyone who insists Shakespeare is stuffy and dull. ...this is Shakespeare for the masses. Full Review |
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I remain skeptical about the ability of even the best American actors to read Shakespeare's lines without giving the impression that they are enduring very painful cultural root canal work. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It has fun and makes you laugh. Full Review |
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If there is sacrilege afoot, I'm not enough of a scholar to spot it. Full Review |
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C+ |
The execution of the Bard's comic work is less than sparkling. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
It's a wildly entertaining romp that should delight fans of this year's Oscar-winner Shakespeare in Love. Full Review |
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C+ |
As a movie, unfortunately, it doesn't quite jive. Full Review |
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3/4 |
What joy to hear an entire film audience roar with glee at Moonshine, Lion and Wall. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Michael Hoffman's adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a delightful way to spend the summer solstice evening, or any other, for that matter. Full Review |
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The film is never a chore to watch, but others have done better by the Bard. Full Review |
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Unfortunately, despite the wonderful locations, sets, costumes, and strong acting, this adaptation has a strange lack of magic or chemistry between players. Full Review |
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C |
Hoffman, who did the adaptation himself, cuts and pastes portions of the play into his movie with a clunky hand. And the avalanche of star power nearly sinks the ship. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Hoffman charts a middle course, and travels it quite well -- his version is neither as elaborately baroque as Max Reinhardt's 1935 film treatment nor as starkly sexual as Peter Brooks's celebrated 1970 staging. Full Review |
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