Title: A boring, pompous mess
Product review: I'm not going to go into a long explanation of the film here, since many other reviewers have already done so. I will simply say that this movie was a major disappointment. I'm a great fan of serious film, but this movie was a classic example of overzealous direction and production. The arrogant Julie Taymor is obviously trying to "teach" us things with this mess, but instead has produced a haphazard melange that is neither entertaining nor particularly attractive. It's just boring. And it's insulting, too, because you get the feeling that Taymor feels it is somehow beneath her to simply create entertainment. Instead she's trying to produce "art," and the heavy-handed results are embarressing to watch. Jessica Lange and Anthony Hopkins try gamely to breathe life into this flaccid film, but even their enormous talents can't raise the dead.
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