A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare would probably roll over in his grave but we both really enjoy this version of the classic. Funny throughout and well done.

I know this version gets panned all the time. And I have seen better versions, (the 1935 version with, of all people, Jimmy Cagney as Bottom was amazingly good). But I love to watch this film. If you love Shakespeare comedies when they go into the woods and things go topsy turvy, then this will be a fun DVD to play on a late Summer night when you can't go to sleep.

It took me a couple of tries to make it through the movie, but once I did, I ended up watching it again the same day. It was just hilarious. Shakespeare on film tends to be very boring, but I think the changes that were made to this play made it enjoyable. As far as the accents go, I would rather all the actors speak in their natural voices than all speak in an English accent since the setting was Italy. I just hate when they do that in movies. I know that it's Shakespeare, but Greeks don't have English accents, and neither do Italians. Calista Flockhart was adorably desperate, Stanley Tucci was great, and Kevin Kline was right on the mark. I think all the actors did a great job making this film worth watching.

not bad...ther was a skip at the end, it left out a chunk of the film. that sucked.

As a Shakespeare purist, I consider this pure trash because the location is transferred from Athens, Greece, to Mount Athena, Italy, and the sensless insufferable nudity at the end. There is no need for a softporn Italian accent on this play. Having studied Shakespeare at length, I've learned that his rustics were actually modeled on British guildsmiths who tried to put on plays like Bottom, Flute, and the others did. Thus so, the play while borrowing from a Greek legend has some of its foundation in peasant Britain.