Comically Poor - I'm going to claim ignorance on this one: I really don't know if it's the original Shakespeare play or just they way this adaptation was written that made it so horrible. This was a non-story. The overall "theme" is a great one - the beautiful younger daughter can't get married until the older "shrew" is, which leads to all sorts of misadventures by the suitors interested in courting the young one. Great. It's used will in 10 Things I Hate About You, Kiss Me Kate, and many others. However, in this film version, we instead follow the shrew and the suitor who wants her just for her dowry. These two terrible people clearly hate each other and gallivant around for two hours doing terrible things to each other, and in the end fall in love for no reason whatsoever. Terrible. Could have been so much better, but as is was a miserably boring and non-sensical melodramatic romp. Elizabeth Taylor is crazy.
Review of The Taming of The Shrew
