English Review - A Mid-summer Night's Dream

ENGLISH REVIEW

Rating: PG
Critics warning: Adult themes, sexual references and violence
Critics rating: 3 out of 10


A Midsummer Night's Dream, the movie opens with a young lady named Hermia who falls in love with Lysander against her fathers will. The opening scene should be powerful but there is really loud background music, and unfortunately this tends to overpower the voices of the actors. Somehow you can manage to understand enough to know that Hermia's father Egeus, orders her to get married to the character Demetrice who's in love with her. Hermia and Lysander flee the city to escape her father and Demetrice, riding into a dark forest. But Hermia's best friend Helena who happens to be madly in love with Demetrice warns him, and Demetrice follows the couple into the forest. Seeking the love of Hermia, Demetrice follows. Seeking the love of Demetrice, Helena follows on as well. This complex web of desire should make the movie interesting and suspensful but unfortunatel...