The Tempest

[yoco]

Release Date: December 10, 2010 (NY, LA; expands: Dec. 17)
Studio: Touchstone Pictures (Disney)
Director: Julie Taymor
Screenwriter: Julie Taymor
Starring: Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Reeve Carney, Tom Conti, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, Djimon Hounsou, Felicity Jones, Alfred Molina, David Strathairn, Ben Whishaw
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some nudity, suggestive content and scary images)

In her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's mystical thriller "The Tempest," Academy Award®–nominated Julie Taymor ("Across the Universe," "Frida," "Titus") brings an original dynamic to the story by changing the gender of the sorcerer Prospero into the sorceress Prospera, portrayed by Oscar® winner Helen Mirren ("The Queen"). Prospera's journey spirals through vengeance to forgiveness as she reigns over a magical island, cares for her young daughter, Miranda, and unleashes her powers against shipwrecked enemies in this exciting, masterly mix of romance, tragicomedy and the supernatural.

[slikrapid]

looks like confusion ridden nonsense with laughable characters and pointless 'adventures', there are some spiritual allusions (translated into androgyny or the sex change, ghosts, etc.), illusion of life/existence, biblical elements (adam, eve, serpent sorceress, hell, demons, angels), the highlight being reading of 'shakespeare's' writings (for the 'intellectuals'), cgi (for the 'technofiliacs'), sorceress's haircut (for the mental 'asylums') and naturally hidden contents/programming (for everyone to 'share')