Review – Shakespeare in Love

Even real, honest-to-goodness Shakespeare plays aren’t this dull. Instead of trying to pull off a light Elizabethan comedy around a staging of Romeo and Juliet, maybe they should have just filmed the play itself. It would have been hard pressed to be any worse than the Gen-X version that came out a few years back. Other troubling mysteries raised hereby include why Judy Dench won an Oscar for what amounted to about three minutes of screen time, why the film itself walked away with “best picture,” whether screenwriter Tom Stoppard can in fact be stopped, and whether this signals the rise of the Fiennes boys as England’s answer to the Baldwins. If you’re hankering for a gander at Gwenyth Paltrow in the buff, here’s yet another chance. Otherwise try to catch Shakespeare at work rather than in love. See if desperate