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By Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is a senior writer for EW and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

Lost, indeed. Branagh's once charming Bardolatry has officially transmogrified into shameless, numbskulled pageantry. Here, he takes a potentially engaging concept (love-comedy as pre-WWII movie-musical) and ruins it with unrestrained mugging, pedantic newsreel narration (for you morons who don't speak the Shakespeare), and out-of-the-blue dance spasms. As for the original conceit -- a bookish, all-male kingdom invaded by witty damsels -- well, who's got time to lampoon academic patriarchy when there's a Cole Porter song to butcher! C+


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Posted Jan 05, 2001
 

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