A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words. While Don Pedro tries to trick Benedick and Beatrice into falling in love, Don John tries to tear Claudio and Hero apart.
13 December 1975, Austin, Texas, USA
18 May 1976
16 June 1976, Westlake Village, California, USA
5 March 1959, New York City, New York, USA
26 February 1975, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
June 21, 2016
Loose, enjoyable, and sparkling, it's a movie that lives for the sound of clinking wine glasses and snappy patter.June 21, 2013
The magic holds. It holds from beginning to end.June 21, 2013
This fast and loose independent production is enjoyable as a home movie, but not much more.August 21, 2013
Much Ado About Nothing is a delightfully spirited romp, filled with visual splendor, strong performances and flashes of post-modern absurdity.June 21, 2013
A delightful mix of the modern and the Elizabethan, a sort of do-it-yourself re-imagination of a true comic classic.November 24, 2013
The wine flows freely throughout the film, and likely, all through production too.November 05, 2013
But it is the dark side of Much Ado-everything associated with the smearing of Hero's reputation and her lover Claudio's savage rejection of her-that emerges most forcefully hereDecember 08, 2013
This new adaptation of the Shakespearean play is very odd looking, like a modern film done on the cheap, in an ancient language, viewed on a 60-year-old television set.May 12, 2015
It's a private party, for Whedon fans only.November 02, 2013
More familiar than fresh, but no less amusing. Whedon uses Shakespeare to remind audiences that the problems that existed in the seventeenth century remain relevant and embedded in the human heart.July 01, 2013
The movie swings along, with a grace denied to some of Whedon's grander projects ...June 21, 2013
There's no fire, and where their lines should ricochet with wit, they just spill forth, affably.