A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

2/5

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08/07/08

2.5/4

Your high school English teacher would approve, and parts are terrifically enjoyable.

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07/04/08

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.

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08/05/07

N/A

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.

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04/27/07

3/4

It has fun and makes you laugh.

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06/03/06

N/A

Injecting the film with fun and pathos, Kline makes a superb Bottom; it's his play and he acts it to the hilt.

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02/09/06

N/A

If there is sacrilege afoot, I'm not enough of a scholar to spot it.

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07/21/05

C+

The execution of the Bard's comic work is less than sparkling.

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04/09/05

3.5/5

It's a wildly entertaining romp that should delight fans of this year's Oscar-winner Shakespeare in Love.

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04/07/04

C+

As a movie, unfortunately, it doesn't quite jive.

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05/22/03

3/4

What joy to hear an entire film audience roar with glee at Moonshine, Lion and Wall.

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05/20/03

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.

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02/08/03

N/A

The film is never a chore to watch, but others have done better by the Bard.

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11/06/02

N/A

Unfortunately, despite the wonderful locations, sets, costumes, and strong acting, this adaptation has a strange lack of magic or chemistry between players.

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06/23/02

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.

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04/03/02

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.

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03/19/02

N/A

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.

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03/03/02

1.5/4

I felt like a kid on the outside of the club house looking in -- and not seeing anything through the window that made me feel like I was missing out.

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09/16/01

3/4

This film adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," just might be the best one ever made.

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08/14/01