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Show The Salt Lake Tribune CALENDAR Friday, F3 May 14, 1 ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Has Shakespeare and Love, But That’s It (Bernard Hill) even though Hermia loves Lysander (Dominic West) while Hermia’s best pal Helena (Calista Flockhart) des perately desires Demetrius. Her mia and Lysander sneak into the forest, telling their secret to Hel ena who tells Demetrius, who follows into the woods with Hel ena in pursuit. They all are on bi cycles, a conceit that doesn’t work. In these woods, the fairy rc kk A MidsummerNight’s Dream Shakespeare's lightest comedy become heavily decorated but emotionally weigh movie. BYSEAN P. MEANS THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE bored, especially the manic Tucci. Flockhart er flighty, fidgety “Ally Me- Beal” routine in a collar and h high-buttoned tensions. The other lovers are, as Shakespeare possibly intended, anonymously decorative. Kline, a ham even on his best days, overacts so broad as Bottom that well, let’s just he makes an ass of himself long before Puckarrives. When “A Midsummer Night's Oberon(Rupert Everett) and Tita OK, I may have slept through y college Shakespeare class on ion, but I'm pretty sure there ensual nia (Michelle Pfeiffer) are quar- relling. Oberon sends his minion Puck (Stanley Tucci) to procure a isn't a mud-wrestling scene in flower that will cast tania, causing her to “A MidsummerNight's Drea But director Michael Hoffman Stanley Tucci, left, is Puck and Rupert Everett is the fairy king Oberonin “A MidsummerNight's Dream.” ell on Ti fall in love Shakespeare's beguiling word play, but stumbles badly over Hoffman's attempts to broaden. the story a sappy backstory for stom, some Harpo Marx mug. by Puck. and a soundtrack of force-feed Italian arias that try tointentions Hoffman's operat And Ghani ne neve should come toanend, Hoffman lingers far too long on Bottom and his woeful withthe first creature she sees (’Soapdish,” “Restoration”) saw who turns out to be Bottom (Kevin Kline), a laborer and would-be fit to include one in his movie ad. aptation of William Shakes peare’sfairy-tale farce, Everett seems ri thespian whom Puck has turned a lushly into an ass. Meanwhile, Puck uses the flower trick on Lysander and visualized but thickheaded rendi Demetrius, who forget about Her tion that displaces the Bard's verbal wizardry with technological “magic.” Relocating from ancient and fall over themselves for a. The movie is nimble and Greeceto 1890s Tuscany, the play charming when it sticks to players, padding the show with weak slapstick and wasting the talents of performance artist Bill Irwin (Broadway's “F Fool Moon”) and aetors Sam Rockwell (Lawn ) Dogs”) and Max Wrigh { (who ap peared in last year’s Lincoln Center production of “Twelfth Night” with Helen Hunt) The performances vary wildly joning over Shakespeare's etry it instead leaves the audi ence admiring the gilded cos tumes Lord, directors be. what fools these begins with the impending mar riage of the Duke of Theseus (David Straithairn) and Hippolyta (Sophie Marceau), But first, the Duke must rule on the betrothal of Hermia (Anna Friel) to Demetrius (Christian Bale), a marriage ar ranged by Hermia’s father Egeus TONIGHT- MIKE AES LIVE tain, Repo Kaysville enol 24 AMains46-3400 OPEN tomorro: rOMOrT OW5 schedule: THE KING AND| THE PRINCE OF EGYPT ‘Pc) 7:05 THE OTHERSISTER (PG-43) 6:55 MESSAGEIN A BOTTLE (res) 9:20 A CIVIL ACTION (PG-43) 9. 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