Love's Labour's Lost 2000

Critics score:
50 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Misha Berson, Seattle Times: With all the cutesy-pie self-consciousness on display, the fizz goes off the pink champagne awfully quickly. Read more

David Germain, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Maybe Kenneth Branagh should have left the Hollywood musical where he found it, back in the 1930s. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Worst of all perhaps is Lost's smug air of pleasure at how clever it thinks it's being. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Each player ends up performing in a different play. Read more

Globe and Mail: Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: The froth quickly curdles. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: 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. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Flaws (most of which are minor) aside, Love's Labour's Lost is an enjoyable trifle. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's so escapist it escapes even from itself. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Love's Labour's Lost is a stink bomb of a movie. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: An act of double homage to antique artifice. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: A luscious labor of love. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A double travesty -- a triple one, actually, if you consider the quality of the singing and dancing. Read more