A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) Critic Reviews

A thoroughly enjoyable piece of cinema that does credit to its director and cast.Read the full review

Only the title is clunky in this felicitous marriage of cinematic trickery, theatrical whimsy and the Bard's fabulous tale.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

A playful, sexy piece of work -- just what the Bard might have conjured up for a movie adaptation of his beloved spring-fever comedy.Read the full review

It is an enchanted folly suggesting that romance is a matter of chance, since love is blind; at the right moment we are likely to fall in love with the first person our eyes light upon.Read the full review

Hoffman introduces a memorable sensuality to the movie.Read the full review

Hoffman has wedged the play into a weirdly inapposite setting, has stupidly cut and even more stupidly embellished it, and has miscast it almost to a player. And yet the damn thing works: Shakespeare staggers through, mutilated but triumphant.Read the full review

The major flaw, the clash of acting styles, is at least fascinating to observe. [14 May 1999, Life, p.8E]Read the full review

Whimsical, intermittently enjoyable but decidedly unmagical.Read the full review