What I liked: This is a classic musical, or at least it comes in the box set labeled classic musicals. I remembered seeing it in middle school as the movie version of taming of the shrew It wasn’t particularly inspiring at the time and we ended up watching it as part of a girls night after everyone else voted down Indiana Jones and Star Wars, so Kiss Me Kate was not likely to get a good response from me. It turns out there is much more to the movie than we watched in middle school. The more than we watched in middle school isn’t really made up parts relevant to the plot, rather it is all of the famous show tunes that you have never placed: It’s too darn hot, Brush up your Shakespeare, True to you in my own fashion, Why can’t you behave, etc. These songs are great, they are catchy, they are famous, they have nothing to do with each other or the plot. So essentially Kiss Me Kate excels at being a musical. It has an absurd plot that is largely disregarded by the actors and audience, it h
This "is the worst idea in the long, sad history of terrible ideas" -Jurassic Park II