IN SHORT: Finally, a fun movie for grown-ups.
Cranky's been sitting through so many Oscar® wannabees that his brain was beginning to melt. Movies that were too long. Movies that were too heavy. Movies that were just out and out indulgent crap. And none of those descriptions or adjectives apply to Shakespeare in Love, an absolutely lovely piece of movie making. Funny and filled with all sorts of things historical and cultural that film students can discuss over their after screening cappuccino. For the rest of us normal folk, it's just right.