Pros: This movie has the exact words written by William Shakespeare Cons: I don't like the references to drugs or the violence
This is a dizzying portrayal of William Shakespeare's classic play Romeo and Juliet by director Baz Luhrman. It is definitely set to attract the younger movie fans and plays like a music video on which this generation of kids have been raised.
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Pros: DiCaprio and Danes work well together, quite original, uses authentic dialogue, great update on story Cons: some silly sequences, maybe too flashy for some
"Either I, or thou, or both must join him!" Before Baz Luhrmann was given free-reign to put together the innovative Moulin Rouge! he earned his wings with an interpretive representation of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Taking ...
Pros: Shakespeare is always a plus. Paul Sorvino and Brian Dennehy. Cons: This isn't exactly what Shakespeare wrote.
I feel no qualms about giving away all the plot details here. Most people know this story, and I'm recommending that you read the review and skip the movie...so I'm not cheating you out of anything by telling you all the details.
Pros: Shakespeare's words, if you only listen, not watch. Cons: The abominable procrustean fit that destroys the beauty of the original.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? No, not really; maybe if you're blind and don't mind poorly delivered lines. I was captured as by a train wreck. You know, the horrible experience of being unable to take your eyes off a disaster? OK, so this review is ...
Pros: Well done update of the classic story. Shakespeare needed some guns. Decent cast. Cons: All the usual Shakespeare issues. Violent. Not for purists.
Gunplay! That's what. "Two households both alike in dignity in fair Verona, Where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean, From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star ...
Pros: Romeo is a great remake, despite some folks who didn't get it Cons: West Side Story is great, too -- read on
It doesn’t take an Oxford educated scholar to tell you that Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers of all time. It’s probably even less of a stretch to say that Romeo and Juliet is not only the greatest love story of all time, but one...
Pros: Visually astounding, interesting enough to merit a return to this classic. Cons: Assaultive and exhausting.
This innovative re-imagining of Shakespeare's Romeo Juliet, using the original language, has a lot of things working against it from the outset, not the least of which is the ubiquity of the Romeo and Juliet story. Certainly, most of us had to endure ...
Pros: Art Direction. DiCaprio. Cons: Sometimes it feels like the director didn't fully understand the play.
One night a marketing executive awoke in a sweat. He had had a dream. A vision of colors; young, hot actors; and the nice, old fashion cash-in. He had seen a vision of Shakespeare. Only brighter and flashier, with current "alternative" hits as the...
Pros: This is a spectacular interpretation loaded with detail and innovation. Cons: DiCaprio and Danes could have put in better performances, but it doesn't really matter.
Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe, Tony and Maria, it's all the same concept. The wonderful thing about it is that humans are very adaptable. The same story can be woven so many different ways that each is unique and shows the audience a different...
Pros: The end credits. Cons: structure, setting, acting, just about everything.
I'm convinced that this is, without a doubt, the worst movie ever created. Such, that William Shakespeare himself would roll over in his grave with laughter if he ever watched this piece of cinematographic crap.
Pros: makes Shakespeare more relevant Cons: the drug scene was uncalled for
I have taught Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet many many many times to my 9th grade students, and the hardest thing to do is make Shakespeare's words and his story relevant to today's teens. What I mean is that it is hard to get teens to connect to the...
Pros: the beautiful poetry of Shakespeare Cons: Everything but Shakespeare's words
I can't begin to say how much I abhor this version of "Romeo & Juliet" (1996). What kind of cockamamy cockalorum could even conceive of corrupting a Shakespeare play? I also have little patience with others who think that this is a great...
Pros: The update works pretty well, and, if nothing else, is very beautiful Cons: DiCaprio and it's tough to update Romeo and Juliet
Please be warned that this review is fairly epic in length.
The 1996 release of Baz Luhrmann's update of Shakespeare's most famous love story, Romeo and Juliet, was met with much criticism from movie gurus (most notably, Roger Ebert). It is...
Pros: Unparalleled filmmaking lunacy Cons: Does eventually lose steam
"I think they should have changed the vernacular to modern-day parlance," said my date as we exited a Saturday showing of Romeo + Juliet back in 1996. I should have terminated our "relationship" then and there, because a) she used two...
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