much ado about nothing

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2010)

I bought this movie because somebody recommended it to me. Then, on seeing the cast, that is, Meryl Streep, Stellan Skarsgard and Colin Firth, i said to my self wow this must be good! I was disappointed to learn that great actors can make quite a poor show of themselves. Not that the script had allowed them to do any better; it was sketchy, ridiculous, sloppy, slapdash work, as if written hastily at a party by a bunch of amateurs after smoking a few joints.
The acting was accordingly. Meryl is no merry peach and all her dancing and singing was so out of place I wanted to scream. But she did it all for me. Halfway through the movie her voice sounds as if somebody was strangling her. Unlike Amanda Seyfried, who has some talent in this respect. She was the only one not scratching my ears with her vocal performance.
Another thing that I found greatly irritating was all that joyful yelling whenever 'the girls'(both young and old generation) met. It sounded simply hysterical. Real people don't scream with joy like they're drunk or something when meeting again, even if it's after a long time. I'm convinced the intention was to convey youthfulness and fun but it all failed lamentably to do so.
Given these and other negative remarks I won't add here out of boredom, I'll give this so called musical a 2 out of 10.