Title: Overproduced and pointless
Review: Shakespeare's play already contains plenty of time-shifts. Ancient Athens meets fairlyland, which in turn meets Elizabethan tradespeople-turned-thespians...adding layers of 19th century Italy to the mix, and bicycles, and windeup gramophones, and a repetitive recycling of Italian opera's greatest hits on the soundtrack, just muddies things up. Lots of money went into this production, and it does have some nice visuals. But there is no genuine artistic vision here. Less would have been more. The two stars are for the director's concept, not for author William S., whose best lines are just about impossible to ruin.
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