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Jul 03, 2015Nursebob rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Apparently shot over twelve days in and around his Santa Monica estate with a cast of industry friends, Joss Whedon’s tepid take on Shakespeare’s romantic farce looks and feels like an overly ambitious home movie. Presented here in casual B&W with all the flair of a yuppie garden party, Whedon does exhibit some imaginative staging with manly arguments taking place amidst the girly trappings of a child’s bedroom and a pair of bumbling police detectives stealing the show with their Laurel & Hardy schtick. But even though Shakespeare’s razor sharp musings on what motivates the sexes are timeless and Whedon claims to have stayed true to the Bard’s prose (with a little editing due to time and budgetary constraints), this truncated southern California version still seems somehow dummied down. Would have made a great student film.