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Love's Labour's Lost Reviews
Broad and wildly uneven, this Labour teeters on the edge of the amateur. Yet it's hard not to root for its moonstruck spirit, or to succumb to the panache of the pastiche.
| Mar 6, 2018
It may not be 'hip', but it's definitely enjoyable and it's a shame that there isn't more scope for genuine musical talents like Lester to utilise their gifts in modern cinema.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008
A luscious labor of love.
| Jul 6, 2008
An act of double homage to antique artifice.
| Feb 9, 2006
Maybe Kenneth Branagh should have left the Hollywood musical where he found it, back in the 1930s.
Full Review | Feb 21, 2004
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002
One might as well be watching Lawrence Welk reruns.
| Sep 10, 2001
Love's Labour's Lost hops, bumps and skids along the ground like the flightless creature that it is.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
With all the cutesy-pie self-consciousness on display, the fizz goes off the pink champagne awfully quickly.
| Jan 1, 2000
The froth quickly curdles.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
It's so eager to please, so caught up in its own sunny energies, so seductive to look at, that what might be your resistance never gets off the ground -- or wants to.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
Worst of all perhaps is Lost's smug air of pleasure at how clever it thinks it's being.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000
A double travesty -- a triple one, actually, if you consider the quality of the singing and dancing.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
Little makes much of an impression.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
Everybody in Love's Labour's Lost tries so hard to please, they frequently lose track of the matter at hand, to say nothing of the dialogue.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
Maybe Kenneth Branagh should have left the Hollywood musical where he found it, back in the 1930s.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
Each player ends up performing in a different play.
| Original Score: C+ | Jan 1, 2000
Love's Labour's Lost is a stink bomb of a movie.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Even though Love's Labour's Lost is, in showbiz terms, a turkey stuffed with chestnuts, you wouldn't trade it for a pot of gold.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000
It's so escapist it escapes even from itself.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000