Nowhere near the elegant “Much Ado About Nothing,” which also starred Branagh and his then wife, Emma Thompson, but it has its charming moments. Except for some suggestive innuendos and a bawdy dance number, it is a clean movie, more about love than lust. Most of the cast members are rather, shall we say, subdued, when it comes to singing and dancing aptitude, but Nathan Lane, as a court jester, is often hysterical. And there is that language: “When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th’endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe’s keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.”
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