Love's Labour's Lost (Vol. 77) | A. O. Scott (review date 9 June 2000)
A. O. Scott (review date 9 June 2000)
SOURCE: Scott, A. O. “What Say You, My Lords? You'd Rather Charleston?” New York Times (9 June 2000): E12.
[In the following review, Scott characterizes Kenneth Branagh's film version of Love's Labour's Lost as entertaining but not particularly impressive.]
For every man with his affects is born. Not by might mast'red but by special grace.
These lines are spoken by Berowne, a witty courtier played by Kenneth Branagh, who also directed Love's Labour's Lost, a whimsical, affected adaptation of Shakespeare's most forgettable early comedy. There is a great deal of dancing in the movie, which invokes the name of Stanley Donen and boasts a score packed with Broadway standards from Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and the Gershwin brothers, but not much special grace.
Mr. Branagh has assembled a troupe of game, eager young stars, including Matthew Lillard, the gangly creepshow...
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