Academy Awards, USA 2011
| Nominee Oscar | Best Achievement in Costume Design Sandy Powell |
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Directed by Julie Taymor
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Touchstone)
Helen Mirren is an exiled sorceress living on a desolate island with her teenage daughter Felicity Jones. Mirren whips a storm to shipwreck the people who exiled her, including the king, with a plan to get her daughter in power. Russell Brand is a jester who overacts and fails to provide comic relief. Ben Whishaw plays a multi-gendered spirit who Mirren has at her command. Taymor changes the Shakespeare original to inject more modern sensibilities, particularly concerning gender, but to mixed results. The visuals are alternatingly striking and amateurish, with Ariel's supernatural depiction particularly poor. Still, it is hard to deny the talented Taymor's ability to conjur up vivid imagery, just be sure to turn on the subtitles, even if you speak English.
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