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Critics like the all-star cast of voices (Meg Ryan, John Cusack, and Christopher Lloyd) and the animation, which get "the Disney house style down cold" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). But they profess disappointment at the story, especially at the part where Rasputin causes the Russian Revolution by casting a magic spell.
"With intensive breeding, an increasing proportion of defective genes are inherited," reports John Owen, a professor of agriculture at the University of Wales.
It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.
It's also "undeniably kinetic," and director Rodman Flender (yet another WB alum) manages to generate "watchable levels of splatter-happy delirium" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ).
Critics can't say enough good things about the film: It is "audacious, accomplished" (Emanuel Levy, Variety ), "a delicately conceived, fearless film" that is like "a long tragic poem" (David Denby, The New Yorker ), "one of the year's best" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The New York Times ' Maslin calls it a "stunning debut feature" for director Kimberly Peirce, and Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Gleiberman calls Hilary Swank, a Beverly Hills 90210 veteran who plays Brandon, "extraordinary."
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