As You Like It

As You Like It (2007)

  • 36% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 48% of users liked it
    (5,137 ratings)

Director Kenneth Branagh tackles the works of William Shakespeare for the fifth time in his career as a filmmaker with this adaptation of one of The Bard's most accessible works. Rosalind is the daughter of a banished duke, and lives among a community of Westerners living in 19th century Japan.… More

PG,
Directed By
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 1, 2006 Wide
Picturehouse

Critic Reviews

  • Trevor Johnston, Time Out

    Branagh's fifth foray into celluloid Shakespeare brings us this rather stodgy version of the Bard's wise comedy of old Japan.

  • Heather Boerner, Common Sense Media

    Fun retelling, but longer than teens will like it.

  • Arthur Ryel-Lindsey, Slant Magazine

    Branagh's film suffers when that boldness does not go far enough, creating an adaptation that trades depth and cultural exploration for a few quick fireworks; it is not so much Kurosawa's Macbeth as Memoirs of a Geisha.

  • Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

    Energetic and entertaining, but it's like a long episode of an over-talky, out-of-control soap opera.

  • Derek Malcolm, This is London

    It's not an unsuccessful adaptation. But it rarely catches fire as one of Shakespeare's most popular plays should.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Martin B


    Here's one that snuck completely under my radar, probably because it was apparently made-for-HBO (which I don't have) and not released theatrically. I like Branagh, and I like Kline, but Bryce Dallas Howard in the lead? I'll pass... right? Well, I gave it a shot.… More

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]"As You Like It" starts with a palace coup resulting in the Duke(Brian Blessed) being deposed by his own brother(Blessed again), along with nearly all of his family. The new duke keeps his niece, Rosalind(Bryce Dallas Howard), around to keep his… More

  • Yinalí R


    The awful confusion of Shakespeare's novel itself is a confusion, imagine a movie about it...

  • David S


    For an overview of the play and some decent performances this is fine but isn't up to the standards of Branagh's 'Hamlet' or 'Much Ado' (I haven't seen 'Henry V' or 'Love's Labours'). His concept of setting it in a Japanese… More

  • Sunil J


    It started off promising but just got dull.

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