Making like Mozart and Salieri in "Amadeus," celebrated poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth are given a contempo retrofit in the lively but only occasionally engaging "Pandaemonium." A behind-the-scenes meeting of the creative minds of director Julien Temple, whose previous, highly visual efforts run the gamut from "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" to "Earth Girls Are Easy," and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, who is responsible for "Hilary and Jackie" and "The Claim," the film certainly doesn't skimp on inventiveness. [...]'s a undercurrent of restlessness in its desire to give its subjects and subject matter a more vital context that takes its toll on the enjoyment factor.

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