You can count the number of movie adaptations of Titus Andronicus on one nose and for a very good reason - it stinks. Pandering to the bear-pit section of his audience, the Bard's saltiest play crams in rape, mutilation, murder, cannibalism and infanticide. So, given its justifiable rep as a second-rate Elizabethan slasher from the literati's serial quiller, it would take a brave talent to pull off a successful cinematic makeover. Surprise, surprise: Julie Taymor is no Baz Luhrmann.
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