This play is such a buddy comedy -- as such it has all the problems of a male buddy comedy, summed up by the whole one-guy giving over the women to the other guy resolution. Ouch, pretty sure that was a major part of the movies of my youth.

Benedick (over on the tumbler - and it is awesome using pseudonyms for your kids that they choose themselves) likes the dialogue. And here he recognizes what the 18th-century Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone identified when he said that both the poetry and the comedy "are as perfectly Shakespearean (I do not say as finished or as beautiful) as any of his other pieces"

For me, this is young exuberant Shakespeare who knows he is awesome at the word play and everyone better watch out. So yeah, a teen buddy comedy written by this young auteur still in film school or maybe just out of it. You can see the genius but boy is he a jerk. Luckily, unlike many film auteurs, Shakespeare grows out of it.