A Midsummer Night's Dream
User Score
6.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14

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  1. Official
    Aug 8, 2012
    4
    Boring, lame and dull. It's so goddamn long (since it is so boring), with irritating voices and a stupid plot. There are no funny scenes, no action scenes, NOTHING. Just a complete dull movie. My score: 42/100
  2. ZackO.
    Jun 4, 2004
    0
    What the hell is this crap? CRAP CRAP CRAP! thats wat it is. this movie is boring and to prove it, i have to watch this stupid movie in school for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES! anything watched for education is 100% boring and stupid. it's not funny, it's long, you can't understand what the hell they are trying to say, and it sucks. period.
  3. ToMulroneycakesOrNotToMulroneycakes
    Jul 12, 2003
    8
    I like the fact that, because of the way Metacritic works, Wild Bill Shakespeare is credited on the site as co-writer. He'd fit in quite well in Hollywood. No-one was better at working within the studio system than him. Of course, none of the big Tinseltown execs can carry the threat of execution. Except maybe Harvey Weinstein. The film? It's a good one; a faithful, well-cast retelling of the play, with only a few problems - Flockhart, though great, isn't particularly tall, and is therefore all wrong for Helena; and what benefits there were in updating the play to 19th century Italy are only obvious in Michael Hoffman's head. But that's nitpicking. The film's worth seeing, basically, for Kline. The man was born to play Bottom.… Expand
  4. FredB.
    May 24, 2007
    10
    Beautifully entertaining take on Shakespeare's play, laced with Italian opera and marvelous performances, by Kline and Flockhart particularly. The giddy poetry rolls on and on and what Pffeifer might lack in delivery she makes up for in lovestruck appeal. Bravo.

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Metascore
61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    50
    Shakespeare's comical, all-too-human tale of lust, foreplay and wordplay is buried beneath bad taste.
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  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    50
    The set design is gung-ho Hallmark (Tinkerbell lights, that sort of thing) with a strong whiff of Fellini (the fairy glade looks like a pre-Raphaelite red-light district).
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    80
    Hoffman (Soapdish, One Fine Day) leads a first-rate cast in an intelligent, fully realized adaptation of Shakespeare's most popular comedy that's at once highly cinematic and true to its source.
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