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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:17
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: It may not be reverent enough for purists, but This Taming of the Shrew is too funny -- and fun -- for the rest of us to resist.
Synopsis: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor bring gusto and ferocity to their roles as Katherine and Petruchio in this quintessential battle of the sexes, a vibrant adaptation of the classic Shakespeare... [More]
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Hordern
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Purists will doubtless be upset by this flick, but the bawdy humor is engaging, the photography and musical score work just fine, and the most famous married couple in the world at that time are really having a ball here.
As for Mr. Zeffirelli's settings and the elaborate Renaissance costumes, they look very rich and mellow in the misty pastel colors that are used. But they, too, like Nino Rota's music, tend to monotony.
Top CriticComedy is sustained in witty wedding ceremony.
Top CriticMore debased Shakespeare from Franco Zeffirelli.
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Zeffirelli can't bring himself quite to the realm of radical Shakespeare. However, the film is a great vehicle for the two most famous stars of its era.
Fine Zeffirelli version with Taylor and Burton in good form.
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Riotous fun.
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High-spirited whoop-de-doo Shakespeare, not too adulterated, not too precious, and geared slyly towards an audience who may have read about this kind of marriage on the showbiz gossip pages.
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...ranks among the finest screen adaptations of a Shakespeare play ever made.
Despite its blatant lack of political correctness, there is considerable fun to be had in this film.
When [Zeffirelli] sticks to the play and to his actor's skills, the film comes alive. Sadly that was not as often as it should have been.
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