Kevin Kline's no-life Bottom with his scrappy whiskers and ambitions is the best I've seen.

| Nov 28, 2017

What fools these mortals be -- especially anyone who passes up Michael Hoffman's highly entertaining version of Shakespeare's famous comedy.

| Apr 7, 2012

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Sumptuous version, both earthy and enchanted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Your high school English teacher would approve, and parts are terrifically enjoyable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 4, 2008

Bathed in sunshine, stardust and star power, this 'Dream' should be required viewing for anyone who insists Shakespeare is stuffy and dull. ...this is Shakespeare for the masses.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2007

I remain skeptical about the ability of even the best American actors to read Shakespeare's lines without giving the impression that they are enduring very painful cultural root canal work.

| Apr 27, 2007

It has fun and makes you laugh.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2006

Injecting the film with fun and pathos, Kline makes a superb Bottom; it's his play and he acts it to the hilt.

| Feb 9, 2006

If there is sacrilege afoot, I'm not enough of a scholar to spot it.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

The execution of the Bard's comic work is less than sparkling.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 9, 2005

It's a wildly entertaining romp that should delight fans of this year's Oscar-winner Shakespeare in Love.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 7, 2004

As a movie, unfortunately, it doesn't quite jive.

| Original Score: C+ | May 22, 2003

What joy to hear an entire film audience roar with glee at Moonshine, Lion and Wall.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

Michael Hoffman's adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a delightful way to spend the summer solstice evening, or any other, for that matter.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The film is never a chore to watch, but others have done better by the Bard.

| Nov 6, 2002

Unfortunately, despite the wonderful locations, sets, costumes, and strong acting, this adaptation has a strange lack of magic or chemistry between players.

| Jun 23, 2002

Hoffman, who did the adaptation himself, cuts and pastes portions of the play into his movie with a clunky hand. And the avalanche of star power nearly sinks the ship.

| Original Score: C | Apr 3, 2002

Hoffman charts a middle course, and travels it quite well -- his version is neither as elaborately baroque as Max Reinhardt's 1935 film treatment nor as starkly sexual as Peter Brooks's celebrated 1970 staging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002