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Advantages: Funnier than other Shakespeare plays.
Disadvantages: The language is hard to understand.

...'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare, there are three different sets of characters and I am going to be discussing the theme of love and marriage and how each set is affected by this. The first set of characters within the play are the lords and ladies which consists of four main characters who are all affected by love in different ways. To begin with, Demetrius is being forced to wed Hermia by her father, Egeus. Hermia does not like ...
...in their eyes. Helena, the one who loves Demetrius, is always pestering him to take her back but he doesn't love her so therefore, he intends to marry Hermia. When Hermia and Lysander decide to run away however, all sorts of adventures take place and create a very enjoyable play within the human's story. However, there are another three characters involved in the human's story and that is Egeus, Theseus and Hippolyta. Egeus is the overprotective ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic scenery and brilliant cast
Disadvantages: Can be slow and difficult to follow

...of Venice Film Review The Merchant of Venice is a film adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy directed by Michael Radford. It was written by Shakespeare in 1594 and this is when the film is set. The film itself was released into cinemas in late 2004. 1594 was a golden year for Shakespeare as 1594 was the same year that another popular work; Romeo and Juliet was published. The film adaptation follows this theme of golden work as the storyline is incredibly ...
...therefore he asks his friend, the merchant Antonio for money. As he is waiting for his ships to arrive from the rest of the world he asks a Jew, Shylock (Al Pacino) to borrow 3000 ducats. Antonio enters into a bond with Shylock that if he cannot pay back his debts, Shylock can take 1lb of Antonio's flesh. In the end, Antonio's ships all failed to return meaning he couldn't pay back the debt so Shylock sticks to his word and demands a lb of his flesh. ... Read review

Advantages: A beautifully fresh presentation
Disadvantages: Some poor "English" accents

...A brief plot outline Nicholas Nickleby is dead. (This seems to be a theme of how Dickens starts his novels!) But we are not concrned with that Nicholas Nickleby, it is his son ... young Nicholas Nickleby who is the hero of our tale. After his father's suden death leaving his family with little money the young Nicholas goes to his uncle in town for advice. As you can imagine the uncle is loaded but does not help the Nickelby's at all. He manages ...
...Hall. Now Nicholas is warned that this school is not pleasant by an old friend of his fathers but he goes none the less. When he arrives at Dotheboys he is greated by malnourished, down trodden young boys who seem closer to death than receiving a good education. In particular the young boy Smike is the Headmaster's servant boy and often beaten. As you can imagine Nicholas is there to become the boy's saviour and helps Smike to escape. He then beats ... Read review

Advantages: Reasonably funny
Disadvantages: Rushed ending and quite predictable

...you watch a film, especially one in the romantic/ comedy genre, you get a distinct feeling that they are made following a predefined list of 'must haves' which unless strictly adhered to will spell doom for the film, a sort of painting by numbers approach to film making. As is the case with "One Fine Day" a film which is filled with these 'must haves' from attractive leads, to cute kids, button pushing scenes and most annoyingly a truly predictable ...
...over the period of just one day making the film feel snappy. The main theme behind the film is nothing more than your predictable man meets woman, the initially detest each other but over time they realize that their initial misconceptions of who each other are dissolves to allow for a completely predictable yet unlikely romance. But whilst this may be the underlying theme most of the enjoyment comes from watching the slightly exaggerated issues ... Read review

Advantages: one you can watch over and over and over...........
Disadvantages: NONE!!!!

THIS MOVIE IS BEAUTIFUL, IT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH, IT WILL MAKE YOU CRY, IT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY AND WILL MAKE YOU SAD, THE STORY IS WONDERFUL AND THE SOUNDTRACK SO VERY VERY HAUNTING IT WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO BUY BOTH AND PLAY THEM OVER AND OVER. THE BASIC OUTLINE WITHOUT SPOILING THE FILM IS ABOUT RICHARD COLLIER(CHRISTOPHER REEVE) A PLAYWRIGHT THE FILM STARTS OFF WITH AN OLD LADY GIVING HIM A WATCH AND SAYING 'COME BACK TOO ME' HE THEN VISITS THE ...
...ENDS UP FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE PICTURE IN THE HOTELS HALL OF FAME OF BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS OF HER TIME ELISE MCKENNA (JANE SEYMOUR) UNFORTUNATLY SHE IS NO LONGER ALIVE SO HE FINDS A WAY OF GOING BACK IN TIME TO FIND HER, HE DOES THIS , BUT I WILL NOT TELL ANYMORE AS IT WILL SPOIL THE FILM! MY ABSOLUTELY FAVOURITE BIT IN THE WHOLE FILM IS WHEN ELISE IS HAVING HER PICTURE TAKEN AND JUST AS IT IS TAKEN SHE SPOTS RICHARD COLLIER AND SMILES THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ... Read review