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Title: Frothy and Sparkling as Champagne, but no there there.
Review: Everyone must love the word play, the costumes, the energy, the sets, the feel of this movie. It is fine entertainment. The actors are all having a great deal of fun.But it's like watching cotton candy. It's all sugar and spice, but no substance. In particular, there is no sense at all that this is a film about *Shakespeare*. A film about his plays, yes. But this Shakespeare does not remotely approach the genius we see in the plays. And that's too bad, really, because any film that could capture *that* would be a film worth watching again and again.
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