Linda-12

Do you remember those charming, touching, romantic movies from the 40s or 50s? Can you imagine one of those transformed into a teenie film without loosing a bit of its charm? Well, it can be done, as this film proves.

It's the perfect film for an autumn evening with a fire crackling in the fireplace and the lights turned low.

When we read Shakespeare in school, I was never able to find the enthusiasm his works aroused in the Elizabethan England. This film has captured it!

As a German I might have missed a word now and then, but many of the dialogues were easy to recognize from various plays, and this time they did not seem outdated, but brilliant, not over-exaggerated, but genuinely passionate and beautiful. This film has restored Shakespeare's fame for another millennium to come.

And it is terrifically comical, too, and JudiDench as the Queen is plainly magnificent.

It's the love for details, that makes this film worth seeing: all those little creatures, hairy eyes, scary claws of plants and things, that create a fairy world. I would have really enjoyed the atmosphere, if the constant musical intermezzos wouldn't have spoiled a good deal of it. (Though I laughed out loud when the two headed dragon turned "Sonny and Cher" :-)