Energetic and entertaining, but it's like a long episode of an over-talky, out-of-control soap opera.
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09/21/07
As You Like It (2006)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:4
Rotten:9
Average Rating:4.4/10
Synopsis: Alfred Molina and Kevin Kline take significant roles in this adaptation of William Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT. The production is helmed by Kenneth Branagh, who continues to bring the Bard to the... [More]
Starring: Alfred Molina, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kevin Kline
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Reviews for As You Like It
1 - 13 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
It's not an unsuccessful adaptation. But it rarely catches fire as one of Shakespeare's most popular plays should.
09/21/07
Kenneth Branagh directs this pedestrian spin on the Shakespearean comedy that proves stubbornly resistant to his boisterous brand of all-star panto.
09/21/07
Kenneth Branagh gamely continues to put Shakespeare on film, and audiences continue to ignore them.
09/21/07
Kenneth Branagh is in danger of becoming the next Kenneth Branagh, in a career of serial self-replication as our last unstoppable screen Shakespearean.
09/21/07
Branagh's direction is fluent, surefooted, a little broad sometimes; his ingenious Japanese staging recreates the wrestling match as a wacky sumo contest. It's elegant and Howard is very good.
09/21/07
Top CriticFaced with As You Like It, one of the Bard’s more tiresome plays, Branagh’s direction loses conviction and his storytelling lacks the engaging enthusiasm of his previous Shakespeares.
09/21/07
Top CriticSmart casting and stand-out performances don't compensate for the twee source play and an over-ambitious screenplay from Branagh.
09/21/07
Top CriticUnremarkable take on the Bard’s cross-dressing comedy, ostentatiously relocated to 19th-century Japan though wholly shot in the Home Counties.
09/21/07
With the director setting such a leisurely pace, the seventh step into total inertia takes hold well before the curtain drops.
09/21/07
Branagh’s fifth foray into celluloid Shakespeare brings us this rather stodgy version of the Bard’s wise comedy of old Japan.
09/21/07
While diverting in parts, this struggles to make a convoluted plot engaging. We’re still loving Romola Garai and Bryce Dallas Howard, though.
09/21/07
Top Critic[A]nyone who thinks that Shakespeare is a chore to be suffered needs to see how fresh and refreshing and sweet and enlightening and simply pleasant his wicked-sharp words can be...
08/22/07
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