Were the World Mine Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

were the world mine

the quirky type of film I love, and thoroughly enjoyed it

Totally amateur...

As gay men, we perhaps look at anything with a gay theme more sympathetically than we should. However we thought this absolute rubbish; it felt it was made by someone who skipped film school and who had an inordinate amount of confidence in their own talent, but which was totally misplaced. Boring and unwatchable; we cringed on the sofa until we could stand it no more, not believing anything like this could be commercially released! We willingly eschew Hollywood production values in the name of art but found nothing of merit here.

Disappointing

Was really looking forward to seeing this but i couldn't connect with the charactors at all and the film just dragged on.

"Shakespeare was queer, too!"

An early episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, called 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered', had Xander perform a love potion, which backfiring - at first with welcome results - had seemingly the entire female population of Sunnydale suddenly in love with him. Typically for such a strongly written tv series, even this largely 'throwaway' episode was wittily written, had some great ideas, and the after effects (especially Xander's relationship with a now betrayed Willow) were not ignored. Were the World Mine takes the central idea of a love potion, here magically found hidden within the text of Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, and spins it by having the formula attract people of the same sex. Obviously filmed on a low budget, I can only imagine how fantastic this would have been with just one more rewrite and a few million dollars chucked at it. Nevertheless, this is largely a huge success, is massively enjoyable and plays very well with Shakespeare's words - mixing styles together in clever ways. It works well as a musical - with imaginatively staged and choreographed routines - as a charming romance, as a comedy drama, and as a big two fingers up towards outmoded and outdated homophobic institutions, such as religious organisations and boarding schools (you can send your hate mail to bitemyass@gmail.com). It's also beautifully photographed. Best of all is the above average acting from all involved, which really took my surprise. Tanner Cohen as lead Timothy not only has the angst and hormones down pat, but also has a great singing voice (reminiscent of Jay Brannan). But special mention should go to the three leading women - Wendy Robie as the drama teacher, Judy McLane as Timothy's mother and Zelda Williams as Timothy's best friend, Frankie, who are all excellent. I urge you to watch this with some of your gay fearing friends and make them squirm. Now, where can I get one of them flowers?!

What a crock of ole crap

Truely awful. Instead of renting this for entertainment, i would recommend chewing on your own thumb instead. Much more bearable then this film and by far more entertaining.

'Were the World Mine'

Very interesting and enjoyable