This is one of my favorite movies. The cast was stellar, the lighting and detals perfect and the actors clearly underrstand their roles and portray them well. Many of them had previous experience with the Bard (Kline and Flockheart certainly do) and bring that familiarity with them to this production. The only slight off note is that the director should have had Hippolyta wearing a uniform (she was the Queen of the Amazons, after all) because this would have helped the audiance understand the interaction between herself and Theseus- Hippolyta gives us Shakespeare's vision of the empowered modern woman- someone who has choices and does NOT have to get married if she does not want to. But other than this very slight quibble the movie is a pitch perfect presentation of Shakespeare's greatest comedy, one that uses film to bring out the full story in a way that cannot be done on the stage. This film is an absolute must buy.