I heart Kenneth

So, no disrespect to Mr. Branagh, who I adore with many sections of my heart, but what's with the trend to misread Hamlet? I understand that it's a demanding role, but I think that no adaptations of the play have really captured/capitalized on the true creepiness that Shakespeare wrote into the script.
1. We never get the adolescent Hamlet, and I swear he is. I think that Olivier, Branagh, and Gibson have had to go to great lengths to dramatize the role of Hamlet because the character is not supposed to be a middle-aged man. We're looking at a teenager here. I think the drama of the play makes much more sense in this context. If I were to cast the part, I'd cast Hamlet as an oily, peach-fuzzed, just-at-the-ripest-point-of-puberty kid. I think this would explain his madness, it would add depth/creepiness to the Ophelia thing (who would be like 12, which would work if my next point were true, wait a sec), and would make the Oedipal references that much more wrenching. Oooh, I can see it now.
2. Aren't we supposed to be in medieval Denmark? Can't we play that up? Gibson's production did a decent job, but I didn't think it took advantage of the dark ages thing--there was altogether too much sunlight and too many fresh-swept surfaces. I'm imagining dark and dank and cold and dirty. A place where a 12 year old Ophelia could definitely be taken advantage of by a tribal prince.
Gross, yes; dirty, yes. But right, right?