Tromeo & Juliet (1996)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This isn't the worst Troma film I've seen. It was better than Surf Nazis Must Die! but no where near the caliber of Toxic Avenger or Nukem' High. It only has a little nudity and only one good sex scene so I'd say skip this flick if you're looking for cheap thrills. You know the story, the special effects are par for an 80's B movie and the laughs are far and few between. I found myself distracted during this movie and kept checking the clock to see if it was almost over yet. Not the worst flick I've sat through but I won't be watching this again. Skip the popcorn and save the beer because even though this movie is available to watch right now from streaming Netflix it ranks too low on the T&A scale for me to recommend.

Tromeo and Juliet is set in present day New York city where Tromeo Que (Will Keenan) & Juliet Capulet (Jane Jensen) meet by chance at a party held by Juliet's Father Cappy Capulet (Maximillian Shaun), they quickly fall in love with each other. Unknown to them Cappy & Tromeo's Father Monty Que (Earl McCoy) have had bad business dealings in the past so when they find out about their offspring's blossoming relationship they are far from pleased. Add that to the fact the two families are at war with each other & Juliet is engaged to a geekish meat factory worker named London Arbuckle (Steve Gibbons) Tromeo and Juliet discover that the course of true love never runs smoothly...Co-written, co-produced & co-directed by Lloyd Kaufman Tromeo & Juliet is Troma studios attempt at adapting William Shakespeare's most well known play. The script by co-director Kaufman & his fellow co-director James Gunn takes the basic well known love story & adds that individual Troma touch. Lesbianism, farting, pee drinking, huge demon penises, body piercing, tattooing, murder, gore, mayhem, nudity, sex, perversion, bodily fluids, porn, child abuse, a slaughterhouse & a live mouse that is eaten whole by a lizard coupled together with bad acting & low production values. But does it work? Well in my humble opinion no it doesn't, I'm not a fan of the Troma way of doing things & I don't really like their films. Tromeo and Juliet is slightly slow going at times & I actually found it quite dull. I never laughed at any of it, the character's are up to the usual low standards set by Troma & the dialogue is irritating & stupid. If you haven't already guessed I didn't like Tromeo and Juliet that much, apart from a few effective scenes there is little here to get excited about.Directors Gunn & Kaufman didn't have much of a budget to work with & it shows, this has all the low production values, poor special effects & moronic ideals that most Troma films suffer from. There really isn't much about Tromeo and Juliet that I can praise, if anything. As usual for a lot of Troma films keep watching the end credits as they are just about the funniest thing about the film. I found the gore somewhat disappointing, there's a scene when someone loses an eye, some poorly staged fights, someone has a couple of fingers cut off, some bulging eyes, some blood splatter, a decapitation & severed arm, some pig carcasses & while it sounds gory it's all rather flat & not as extreme as I was expecting.With a supposed budget of about $350,000 it shows, Tromeo and Juliet is a pretty badly made film. The cinematography is static, the special effects are poor & it has low production values. The acting is terrible & these people shouldn't go anywhere near a camera ever again.Tromeo and Juliet is an interesting take on Shakespeare to say the least, but that doesn't mean it's any good. It's probably just about worth a watch as it's different but it didn't do much for me overall, disappointing.

A very bizarre bringing to the screen of William Shakespeare's tragic love story.The Que family and the Capulet family have a long running hatred of one another which often results in violence. The hatred has something to do with a film company and the fact that everyone is pretty much crazy. In the middle of all of this insanity are Tromeo and Juliet, literature's most famous "star crossed" lovers that fall for each other at first sight and problems arise when they realize whose family the other belongs to.The film follows the basic plot of the original play remarkably well and key scenes even use the original, or close to original, lines. But the infamous Troma bizarreness pervades the film from beginning to end. That makes for a movie that is definitely not for all tastes, but it is nonetheless pretty inventive. Tyrone (Tybalt in Shakespeare) has a particularly funny death scene. 7/10Many differently edited and rated versions exist. Each contains violence, profanity, drug use, and sex, all with a big dose of bizarreness.

Troma Pictures are an acquired taste, and this one, an 'adaptation' of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, directed by Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman, is no exception.You want suicidal squirrels? Plexiglass cages? Bad, bad, acting? Bad, bad, bad, dialogue? Scenes and situations of excruciatingly poor taste? Lemmy as narrator? Gory deaths? Loud music which jars on the nerves? Silly jokes involving phalluses, toilets, and bondage? Then this will be a real treat for you. For the rest of us, who hoped and prayed that nothing could be worse than The Toxic Avenger, here is something closer to the bottom of the barrel.