Title: Trevor Nunn's 12th Night Fails Miserably As Comedy
Product review: AVOID this movie. The tone, pace, and casting of Shakespeare's second most performed comedy is fundamentally off the mark. Nigel Hawthorne's Malvolio is the only comic highpoint in this inexplicably slow-moving and melancholy piece. Ben Kingsley seriously misinterprets the part of Feste which is the comedic backbone to the play. Nunn's Twelfth Night does not succeed as a comedy and more to the point, as a movie. There is some fine acting in here, notably the aforementioned Hawthorne as well as Stubb's Viola, but this film may altogether be more useful to students of Shakespeare in the same way that Cliff's Notes are; it's not entertainment. Twelfth Night is one of my favorite Shakespearean comedies and I was personally offended by its unfunniness.
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