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DVD : As You Like ItIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Takuya Shimada, Brian Blessed, Richard Clifford, Bryce Dallas Howard, Patrick Doyle directed by: Kenneth Branagh  List Price: $26.98 Amazon.com's Price: $20.99 You Save: $5.99 (22%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0026359401923 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 25, 2007 Running Time: 127 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Sales Rank: 9477 MPN: HBOD94019D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Emmy award winner Kenneth Branagh, the man who redefined Shakespeare for a whole new generation with Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, brings the Bard's most delightful comedy to sensational life! Rosalind is a young woman living in the court of her uncle when she falls in love with Orlando, a young gentleman of the kingdom. When Rosalind is banished, she flees into the forest of Arden disguised as a man...only to encounter Orlando who has also been exiled! But can she win his heart, disguised as she is? With a setting inspired by 19th century Japan and a star-studded cast including Kevin Kline (Dave, A Prairie Home Companion), Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider-Man 3, The Lady In The Water) and Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, The Da Vinci Code), AS YOU LIKE IT once again proves that all the world's a stage. Come enjoy! Amazon.com: If you think stuffy old Shakespeare could be livened up with some ninjas, Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) has heard your call. Adapter/director Branagh has set the pastoral comedy As You Like It in feudal Japan, where the characters are still British (they live in a community established by Western merchants) but now have reason to dress up in lush Japanese fabrics and engage in sumo wrestling. Due to a feud between two noble brothers, Rosalind (Bryce Dallas Howard, The Village) is banished and ends up disguised as a man in a nearby forest. There she tests the faith of her beloved (and also banished) Orlando (David Oyelowo, MI-5), who can't recognize her because she looks like a Dickensian ragamuffin. Meanwhile, a variety of other star-crossed lovers romp around the forest and zen gardens, sparring about love and melancholy. Branagh, never a subtle director, takes every opportunity to squeeze in slapstick and action (like the aforementioned ninjas), but he also keeps the language clear and the movie is beautiful to look at. The strong cast includes Kevin Kline (who previously frolicked in a movie adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream), Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, Frida), Romola Garai (I Capture the Castle, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights), and Adrian Lester (Hustle, Love's Labors Lost). --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Folks, there's no such thing as a "gimmick" for Shakespeare...A point that might apply to every Shakespearean adaptation or appropriation reviewed here at Amazon.com: there is no such thing as "traditional Shakespeare," or "conceptual Shakespeare," or anything else. Shakespeare's plays never had a chance to develop a "tradition." They had their original performance conditions, and then saw immediate alteration and adaptation by the Restoration. Nahum Tate's "happy ending" King Lear, in which Lear lives and Cordelia marries Edgar, held the stage for 150 years. ... Read More Rating:  - InterestingIt is a very interesting movie. The movie is good if your looking for something that uses the actual play. Great for school stuff. Rating: - FunctionalEasy on the eye with nice photography and art direction. Strong performances by Blessed and Molina. The Rosalind by Bryce Howard is very pleasant if a bit giggly. Stunning work by Adrian Lester as Oliver De Boys. Would show this version over others in school as the Olivier 1936 version's audio is too difficult and the 1978 BBC production is rather plodding. Rating:  - A movie that proves "all the world's a stage" XXXXX This movie is based on William Shakespeare's romantic comedy play "As You Like It" (circa 1600), one of his greatest comedies. I feel that this movie catches the essence of the play with director Kenneth Branagh (who also adapted the play to the screen and co-produced) focusing on the main love plot with the other love plots being given some attention. (Branagh had to do this or the movie would be far too long.) What is the essence of the play and the movie? ... Read More Rating:  - Takes some getting-used-to, but enjoyable in the end.Usually, I prefer my opera or play set in traditional production, with the time frame, costumes and cast as plausible and realistic as possible. This movie is therefore a disappointment to me at the very beginning, with the background set to 19 century Japan and the de Boys brothers played by black actors. Director Kenneth Branagh's leisurely pacing does not help. Strangely, as the story goes on and the action moves away from the Japanese "court" to the forest, I find myself gradually swayed ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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