VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU This comedy is a very good comedy with no disguises this time but with two pairs of twins who were estranged by some storm during a sea voyage when they were infants. Plus imagine the father who was estranged from one of each pair and the mother separated in her own way and not even knowing that those who arrived with her in Ephesus were hers. It all turns and whirls around these lost connections and these pairs of twins that create havoc on the main square of Ephesus. The square is full of mountebanks and other street artists, peddlers and vendors, hawkers in one word. And it is a real merry-go-round from one side to the other and all around. They are all so ignorant of the tricky situation they are in that they are all turned into curtal dogs turning the spit in their wheels: "To conclude, this drudge, or diviner, laid claim to me, call'd me Dromio; swore I was assured to her; told me what privy marks I had about me, as, the mark of my shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my left arm, that I amazed ran from her as a witch: And, I think, if my breast had not been made of faith and my heart of steel, She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made me turn i' the wheel." (Act III, Scene 2, Dromio of Syracuse). But it is a comedy and that incessant turning may make you dizzy, so the duke will finally put some order in that disorder and the twins will find out their fate and the parents will be reunited and the children will recognize their parents. And to square the dog-wheel, couples will be built to come to the magic number of eight, if possible. The two pairs of twins make four, the parents will make six and the Duke will go to the party with the Courtezan mind you and that will make eight. But you also have the parents, each son with his wife or wife to be, the sister of the previous one, and the Duke and the Courtezan and the two Dromio going their way hand in hand, and that is eight again. Or even the two sons Antipholus, the two brothers Dromio, the two sisters who are married to or will marry the Antipholus, and their parents and you have eight again. Speaking of squaring a whirlwind, Shakespeare here is great. The BBC does a beautiful show because the twins really look like twins and the rhythm is so dynamic that we are really enchanted by the job. It is true too that all actors are perfect in their respective places and the slaps look and sound like slaps and quite many other little tricks like a rope turned into a hanging noose and a schoolteacher who is also a doctor and a great master in the art of dealing with insane people (the schoolteacher as much as the doctor), to his own expense in a way. Good entertaining job.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

Alain English "The Comedy of Errors" is probably one of Shakespeare's more enjoyable comedies, with plenty of beautiful rhyming barbs and a plot with romance, intrigue, mistaken identity and of course the usual celebratory song and dance finale.It's all done with aplomb here, despite a rambling prelude and some awkward split-screen effects near the end. When travelling tradesman Antipholus (Micheal Kitchen) and his assistant Dromio (Roger Daltrey) wind up in Ephesus, a bizarre series of escapades sees them confused with a local nobleman and his servant who not look identical to them but even have the same names. Complications arise with, among others, the nobleman's wife Adriana (Suzanne Bertish), her servant Luciana (Joanna Pearce) and the Duke of Ephesus (Charles Gray).It's weird to see a member of "The Who" doing Shakespeare but Roger Daltrey acquits himself well and makes a fine double act with Micheal Kitchen. Bertish is wonderfully feisty as Adriana, and Cyril Cusack bookends the play as the twin's hapless father Aegeon.The only serious problem is the staging. This story might have worked better on location, as the sets look too much like a Blue Peter style TV studio. Despite some fancy camera-work, it still detracts from the effect.If you can ignore this, it's easy enough to enjoy this delightful comedy frolic

mrdonleone this movie bothered me so much, I had to see it in many days to survive the agony of it. now I am going to try to show my feelings towards this picture.first of all: the acting. the cast acts like they are teaching little children. I hate it when actor's do taht. it's as if we are all dumb creatures and they know it all... I dislike that fact, because it isn't so. correct, it's a play of Shakespeare, so they must overact to make it watchable, but still... they annoyed me like hell! second: the story. it's a story a 7 year old can write. again, it's Shakespeare, but why should I have to love everything from Shakespeare? yes, I like most of his works, but this one I detested. it was like watching a train arrive in 1894 (actually, that would have been more exciting than this Comedy of Errors).the music. ah, the music was fine. but if you would hear the music outside of the movie, you would hate it. so, also the music BEEPs.conclusion: the whole movie BEEPs. the only interesting about it was the conclusion, where everybody comes together in a Shakespearian way.

Ross I do find this story amusing even if not one of Shakespeare's very best. It's good enough to thoroughly enjoy and very well done too in this version. I particularly like Michael Kitchen (a favourite of mine anyway) as the patrician twins. Normally I don't like doubling of twins, I'd prefer two actors even if not identical enough - the audience can always take it they are identical, no problem. But MK did this so well, with the tetchy Ephesus twin with doublet always unbuttoned and the pleasant Syracusan with doublet always buttoned, plus the usual filming tricks to have them face to face at the end, that I had no problem this time. Perhaps this is partly because MK is such a good actor! The story is light and fluffy although with that serious edge one expects in Shakespeare, that twins parted at birth and parents also parted at the same time causes much distress. It seems rather strange the Syracusan side of the family waits so long to seek out the lost twin but you do need the twins to be adult because of the love interests. The utter confusion that ensues when one twin is taken for another is wonderful.Even more, it's two sets of twins since we also have the servant twins both called Dromio, leading to even more confusion. And parents finally reunited too. Very nice.I simply loved this production. Wonderful fun with fine actors. Roger Daltry does well as Dromio.