★★★
Charisma overpowers codswallop in Will Gluck’s Anyone But You, an immensely watchable, if throughly convoluted, bard-stardisation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. It’s a loose take on the sixteenth-century romcom, true, but no more so than were She’s the Man or 10 Things I Hate About You. Boy meets girl. Boy has massive misunderstanding with girl. Boy hates girl…and so on. There’s no confusing this fluff with the Kenneth Branagh adaptation but fans of gorgeous people doing gorgeous things in gorgeous places will find themselves no less thoroughly entertained.
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