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By Private U (13,627) on 24 Jul 2008

One of my favourite films in the Toronto Festival in 2006…

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By Orit Z (5) on 06 Jul 2008

Beautiful music, funny and well done movie. good voices. you don't have to be opera funs to love it…

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By Alison P (162) on 31 May 2008

I saw this in Manchester over Christmas holiday. I thought it was a fun romp and an exciting way to experience Mozart…

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By Theodora S (1) on 21 Apr 2008

I saw it; I don't actually mind it at all. I guess the beautiful music of Mozart can redeem any daring direction. It was unusual but OK…

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By Suzannah L (4) on 28 Feb 2008

Music and signing brilliant but plot didn't work and humour was patchy at best…

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By Lena L (29) on 21 Feb 2008

Didn't like the movie - so prefere Bergman's Magic flute! But the musical performances in this version where incredible…

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By Jeremy Heilman (393) for MovieMartyr.com (391) on 08 Jan 2008

Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute comes on strong ... maybe too strong…

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By Miriam W (40) on 06 Jan 2008

First, good to see CGI being put to good and creative use…

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By Laure S (20) on 06 Jan 2008

Vraiment amusant! Malheureusement beaucoup de gens n'ont pas compris qu'il fallait prendre le film au 3e degre! J'etais la seule a rire dans la salle…

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By Sean C (2,276) on 04 Dec 2007

Visually and sonically stunning, but even with the clear-headed wit of Stephen Fry behind the libretto, I'm still no wiser on the story nor…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 30 Nov 2007

A week is a long time in cinema. Last Friday saw Branagh being all but written off thanks to the ludicrous Sleuth…

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By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 30 Nov 2007

His flamboyant rendering of the Mozart opera isn't as smug and stagey as Sleuth, but it is insufferable - and 40 minutes longer…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 30 Nov 2007

With James Conlon conducting, this Flute is perfectly in tune - so it's a shame Branagh keeps dropping it in the mud…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 30 Nov 2007

Despite the talent involved - Branagh is joined by Stephen Fry, who has written a new libretto - and the ambitious staging, this flute blows…

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By Fran Hortop (8) for Film4 (1,522) on 30 Nov 2007

Flashes of inspiration but not enough, one suspects, to cause a stampeding horde of cinemagoers to beat down the doors of the Royal Opera House…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 29 Nov 2007

It's an impressive undertaking by Branagh but a rather pointless one…

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By Laura Bushell (49) for BBC.com (1,500) on 29 Nov 2007

A huge budget allows for spectacular CGI sequences and Branagh concocts some startlingly inspired ways to accompany Mozart's music in visuals…

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By Nev Pierce (205) for Total Film (3,532) on 29 Nov 2007

Branagh's imagery is imaginative and the music lifts you. A neat trick…

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By Martin Hoyle (37) for Time Out (7,510) on 29 Nov 2007

Apart from a fascination with the hate-spitting mouth and throat of Lyubov Petrova's vocally pyrotechnic Queen of the Night, the visual gimmicks…

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By Kat Brown (16) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 28 Nov 2007

Although Branagh has done a good job of toning down the opera's more ridiculous elements, what remains will test even the most willing opera virgin…

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