Might have worked a little better on stage, and with a few different actors.
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02/28/02
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
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Reviews Counted:61
Fresh:30
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Interesting idea, poor execution.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Kenneth Branagh's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy sets the action in the last few days before the start of World War II. In the fictional kingdom of Navarre, King Ferdinand (Alessandro... [More]
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McElhone, Alessandro Nivola
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Reviews for Love's Labour's Lost
A number of the actors surprise and beguile.
01/28/02
One might as well be watching Lawrence Welk reruns.
09/10/01
Making a glitzy, old-school 1930's movie musical out of the Bard's silliest work is exactly the kind of thing that a studio wouldn't do in a million years...
06/15/01
If you suspend disbelief and just go with the weirded out flow of things, it's a bit like, well, Shakespeare on acid.
04/09/01
Musicals like this are the reason we don't see more musicals.
04/03/01
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01/01/00
Top CriticEven though Love's Labour's Lost is, in showbiz terms, a turkey stuffed with chestnuts, you wouldn't trade it for a pot of gold.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's all light and frothy and harmless, but, for some, cotton candy won't substitute for the denser, more dangerous joys of chocolate fudge.
01/01/00
This film is colorful and flighty and insubstantial and sentimental, and exults in it.
01/01/00
Maybe Kenneth Branagh should have left the Hollywood musical where he found it, back in the 1930s.
01/01/00
Both a paean to lyric poetry and Hollywood’s fondly remembered theatrically-set musical burlesques, LLL is quite audacious for its bubbly lightheadedness.
01/01/00
The real question is why there aren't more of these.
01/01/00
Yes, sadly, some of Love's Labour's Lost is laboured, indeed.
01/01/00
Though the tunes of Gershwin, Porter, Kern and Berlin on display here are great too, their mere presence can't overcome the problems of adaptation, casting and direction that mar the picture.
01/01/00
Its cheery countenance is impossible to ignore.
01/01/00
Love's Labour's Lost hops, bumps and skids along the ground like the flightless creature that it is.
01/01/00
The goofy side characters are the most unfortunate segment on screen.
01/01/00
A double travesty -- a triple one, actually, if you consider the quality of the singing and dancing.
01/01/00
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