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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036009744
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages:English Original Language Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian Original Language Dolby Digital 5.1 German Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired Dolby Digital 5.1 English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired Dutch Subtitled French Subtitled Spanish Subtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 09, 2002
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: May 14, 1999
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
By far the best thing about director Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the extraordinary all-star cast, which follows the precedent created by Kenneth Branagh's Italian-set romantic Shakespeare comedy, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), of mixing major Hollywood stars--here Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer--with top British talent, in this instance Christian Bale, Rupert Everett, Roger Rees, David Strathairn and Dominic West. Kline makes a fine Nick Bottom, with Pfeiffer equally good as the fairy queen Titania and Everett brooding effectively as Oberon. Unfortunately, while both look ravishing, it is hard to tell which actress between Anna Friel (Brookside) and Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal) gives the most wretched performance. Both are completely out of their depth the moment they begin to speak, and utterly outclassed by the excellent Sophie Marceau.
Shot in Tuscany and set in the 19th century, parts of the film are extraordinarily beautiful, while other sections could have benefited from some judicious special effects magic. This is not a bad movie, but it is rather uninspired, lacking any real imaginative grasp of the play. In contrast, the much less well known and lower budget Royal Shakespeare Company version of 1996 positively revels in the fantastically surreal possibilities this timeless text. --Gary S Dalkin
Rating:
- Oh Dear Lord, Make It STOP!
How can I communicate the aberration that this represents?
I hope that a number of you will be repelled simply to hear that the roles of Hermia and Helena are taken (and then forgotten about) by those mascots of "Pretty but Pointless", Calista Flockhart and Anna Friel. Calista Flockhart rides a Penny Farthing bicycle and blows the tumbling tendrils of hair off her forehead regularly - but it gets worse, even when the talent gets more accomplished.
Stanley Tucci would get laughed off a ... Read More
Rating:
- An inadequate version
Although visually attractive, there is little to praise in this version.
The text is so full of delights that it musty have taken real effort to come up with such a tedious version. The comic elements were especially lack lustre. Nothing would induce me to sit through it again.
Rating:
- Best version I've seen so far of this entertaining play
I've only one minus really on this production, that this Oberon isn't quite as good as the Oberon in the Beeb's Shakespeare Retold set - that Oberon was quite wonderful although the production generally was mediocre. However, this Oberon is perfectly good in what's such a delightful version of the play. I enjoyed the setting and the bicycles and yet maintaining the Shakespearean ethos throughout.
Particular accolades to Kevin Kline. Brilliant performance. Worth having really just for ... Read More
Rating:
- Best version I've seen yet of this great Shakespeare play
Splendid acting, splendid scenery, splendid conception altogether and especially from Kevin Kline who avoids making Bottom a bit of a twerp but instead presents him as a man with intelligence. My favourite part of Midsummer Night's Dream has always been the play within a play about Pyramus and Thisbe, and as always had me convulsed (ie with laughter).
I saw the BBC "Shakespeare retold" version awhile back and that wasn't nearly as good - indeed was sometimes quite boring and the play ... Read More
Rating: - Very good acting with ironically fine sense of period
Strangely enough for a play written in the Tudor era and possibly set in Ancient Greece, this presents a very rich Victorian England to us. It's all there- the costumes, the bicycles, the grand English accents, the Duke's beautiful palace. It could have been slightly better if set in England as there are no Italian accents.
If you are reading the play, as has every schoolchild down the ages, then you just do not comprehend what is happening as well as you do here. I think that this is a superlative ... Read More
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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream [1999]
starring: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart
directed by: Michael Hoffman
directed by: Michael Hoffman
Our Price: 108,464.40
Prices excluding shipping charge.Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036009744
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages:
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 09, 2002
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: May 14, 1999
Related Items:
- Twelfth Night [1996]
- Much Ado About Nothing [1993]
- The Merchant of Venice
- Love's Labour's Lost [2000]
- Henry V [1989]
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
By far the best thing about director Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the extraordinary all-star cast, which follows the precedent created by Kenneth Branagh's Italian-set romantic Shakespeare comedy, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), of mixing major Hollywood stars--here Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer--with top British talent, in this instance Christian Bale, Rupert Everett, Roger Rees, David Strathairn and Dominic West. Kline makes a fine Nick Bottom, with Pfeiffer equally good as the fairy queen Titania and Everett brooding effectively as Oberon. Unfortunately, while both look ravishing, it is hard to tell which actress between Anna Friel (Brookside) and Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal) gives the most wretched performance. Both are completely out of their depth the moment they begin to speak, and utterly outclassed by the excellent Sophie Marceau.
Shot in Tuscany and set in the 19th century, parts of the film are extraordinarily beautiful, while other sections could have benefited from some judicious special effects magic. This is not a bad movie, but it is rather uninspired, lacking any real imaginative grasp of the play. In contrast, the much less well known and lower budget Royal Shakespeare Company version of 1996 positively revels in the fantastically surreal possibilities this timeless text. --Gary S Dalkin
Average Rating:
Rating:
- Oh Dear Lord, Make It STOP!How can I communicate the aberration that this represents?
I hope that a number of you will be repelled simply to hear that the roles of Hermia and Helena are taken (and then forgotten about) by those mascots of "Pretty but Pointless", Calista Flockhart and Anna Friel. Calista Flockhart rides a Penny Farthing bicycle and blows the tumbling tendrils of hair off her forehead regularly - but it gets worse, even when the talent gets more accomplished.
Stanley Tucci would get laughed off a ... Read More
Rating:
- An inadequate versionAlthough visually attractive, there is little to praise in this version.
The text is so full of delights that it musty have taken real effort to come up with such a tedious version. The comic elements were especially lack lustre. Nothing would induce me to sit through it again.
Rating:
- Best version I've seen so far of this entertaining playI've only one minus really on this production, that this Oberon isn't quite as good as the Oberon in the Beeb's Shakespeare Retold set - that Oberon was quite wonderful although the production generally was mediocre. However, this Oberon is perfectly good in what's such a delightful version of the play. I enjoyed the setting and the bicycles and yet maintaining the Shakespearean ethos throughout.
Particular accolades to Kevin Kline. Brilliant performance. Worth having really just for ... Read More
Rating:
- Best version I've seen yet of this great Shakespeare playSplendid acting, splendid scenery, splendid conception altogether and especially from Kevin Kline who avoids making Bottom a bit of a twerp but instead presents him as a man with intelligence. My favourite part of Midsummer Night's Dream has always been the play within a play about Pyramus and Thisbe, and as always had me convulsed (ie with laughter).
I saw the BBC "Shakespeare retold" version awhile back and that wasn't nearly as good - indeed was sometimes quite boring and the play ... Read More
Rating:
- Very good acting with ironically fine sense of periodStrangely enough for a play written in the Tudor era and possibly set in Ancient Greece, this presents a very rich Victorian England to us. It's all there- the costumes, the bicycles, the grand English accents, the Duke's beautiful palace. It could have been slightly better if set in England as there are no Italian accents.
If you are reading the play, as has every schoolchild down the ages, then you just do not comprehend what is happening as well as you do here. I think that this is a superlative ... Read More
Action & Adventure • Adult • Anime • Children's • Classics • Comedy • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery • Documentary • Drama • Fitness • Gay & Lesbian • Horror • Interactive • Music • Musicals & Classical • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Television •
