The marriage of the inventor Andrew and his wife Adrian is suffering from their missing sex life. In order to forget their problems they invite two friends of them, the doctors Leopold and Maxwell. Unfortunately Maxwell's fiancee is Andrew's former almost-girlfriend and when everybody seems to fall in love just with the wrong one, the chaos is perfect.

As the title indicates, this movie is not only based on Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a summer night", but also cites Jean Renoir's "Rules of the Game" and, obviously, William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's dream". So this could be quite charming and funny and maybe even treat some serious topics. But the disappointing result is a movie, that kind of never really starts and doesn't have a conclusion at all.

To defend Allen, some must say that he was kind of forced to make this movie. His first movie for "Orion Pictures" should have been "Zelig", but the production had some problems. So the studio wanted Allen to release another movie earlier. Allen wrote the screenplay for "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" within two weeks. So don't complain too much about this movie, but simply don't watch it. Woody will forgive you.

This one only gets 4 points out of 10 by me, because it lacked as well the charme, the humor and the intelligence of Allen's best works.