Joss Whedon Enjoys His Job More Than You Do

The best part about Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing is that it's not particularly proud of itself for adapting Shakespeare. Filmmakers tend to tackle the Bard out of hubris (the Mel Gibson Hamlet), an attempt to be some sort of authority (Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet), a flamboyant go-for-bat***-nutty-broke spirit (Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet) or self-consciously artsy revisionism (the Ethan Hawke Hamlet). What I love about Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing is that he seems to have made it just...