10 Movie Titles With Double Meanings Everyone Missed

Much Ado About Nothing is certainly an oldie, but the double entendre has been missed by readers for centuries. It’s one of those things which, for reasons which will become apparent, was never taught in English classes and so most people never picked up on.

For most people, English class is their only dealing with Shakespeare after all.

Much Ado About Nothing, like many Shakespearean phrases, has survived as an expression to the modern day, meaning when a fuss is being made over something largely superfluous or superficial. That’s also what the first, surface meaning of the title is, but there is another too.

In the Elizabethan era when Shakespeare was writing, ‘nothing’ was a slang expression for vagina. So the play is essentially titled Much Ado About Vaginas.

Shakespeare did love a good blue joke, with Romeo and Juliet beginning with a cheerful gag about taking a woman’s virginity, and Hamlet’s infamous ‘country matters’.

The play focuses on various love affairs, trysts and blossoming romance, so the double meaning of the title is very fitting. Not quite as boring as you might remember English class being either, eh?