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It's exactly that., Juil 30 2001
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Shakespeare / Branagh confection. I understand that for EVERYONE, including Elizabethan scholars, the dialogue in a Shakespeare play requires a bit of coaxing into (for the average intelligent person, about 15 minutes). But how dumb does Branagh think we are? His "HEY NONNY NONNY" opening, in gigantic letters accompanied by a vocalist singing the same thing, is the equivalent of "Shakespeare For Teletubbies". Branagh recovers with a pretty cool opening-credit sequence that has some heroic-looking dudes -- Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, etc. -- riding on horseback toward the camera, accompanied by thrilling music. For a moment here, you think: "Wow -- this might be an EXCITING Shakespeare movie!" Calm down. The director misfires again with the next sequence. It's a rompish bit of business that will remind some viewers of that old *Tom Jones* film: giggling, bare-bottomed, feisty, lusty, etc., ladies -- none too great to look at, by the way -- bathing like mad, scrubbing armpits and the like with a fury, in anticipation of the arrival of the guys. It's the sort of scene that's variously described as "earthy" and "bawdy" . . . it's also been done to death in other movies, and is an indication of the aggressive, insistent "joie de vivre" yet to come. And then the odd, but of course culturally sacred, Shakespearean dialogue inevitably gets underway -- deadly to ANY movie, let's face it; and *Much Ado* is no exception. Talk talk talk, archaic talk to boot, for the next 2 hours, slowed down by Branagh's insistence on endless close-ups on his actors as way of helping to convey the meaning of the words. But I don't mean for this review to be a total trash job: there are good things about this movie. Branagh, for instance, is very funny as the reluctant lover Benedick, as is his then-wife Emma Thompson (always brilliant) as Beatrice. The Tuscan scenery may prompt you to call your travel agent.
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