Love's Labour's Lost Reviews

In 2011, Kenneth Branagh had a rather impressive come-back as a director with 'Thor' but, honestly, none of his movies he made during the 2000's were either critical or financial successful and it seems that most of those movies were barely seen. It is rather surprising since Branagh was really succesfull in the 90's. Anyway, he started the 2000's with yet another Shakespeare adaptation, it definitely belongs to his most obscure work and it took me years to find this on DVD. The end-results was ok but nothing much than that, I'm afraid. I mean, first of all, expect from Branagh, you have a B cast (Alessandro Nivola, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McElhone, Matthew Lillard, Emily Mortimer, Nathan Lane, Timothy Spall) and they were not bad but compared to the all-star cast of 'Much Ado About Nothing', it is definitely another kind of ball game. So, the story is kind of weak, it mixes Shakespeare with some musicals songs and dances, a whole bunch of things which I'm not really fond of so, even though I have the utmost respect for the endeavour, I can't say I really enjoyed it. Still, Kenneth Branagh is and remains a great Shakespeare master and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.