Mini-Review: Robert Sean Leonard is hilariously awful, and Kenneth Branagh is clearly channeling Basil Fawlty during his soliloquies, but these things make this version much more entertaining if not sublime. I wonder whether Leonard was cast intentionally to provide just the sort of laughable, wooden emotions two-dimensional Claudio requires. On the other hand, Shakespeare's hilarious passages do come across here, aided by some camera and editing ingenuity. Great stuff.

Mini-Review: So terrible it's kinda hilarious. The scenes where William Bendix is supposed to be a "teenage" Babe Ruth will have you on the floor.

Mini-Review: The title character is played by Roscoe Orman (Sesame Street's Gordon), and his cussing, bitch-slapping, and pimp outfits will drop your jaw (at one point he sports a fez!). But I love this movie because it's a transcendent commentary on free enterprise and government intervention. In this case a pimp refusing to collectivize, then getting cut down to size. Number one minus o