Tromeo and Juliet

Starring:Wendy Adams, Stephen Blackehart, Flip Brown, Patrick Connor (II), Steve Gibbons, James Gunn (II), Sean Gunn, Jane Jensen, Will Keenan, Lemmy, Steve Loniewski, Antonia Lurie, Earl McKoy, Valentine Miele, Debbie Rochon, Maximillian Shaun, Jacqueline Tavarez, Gene Terinoni, Tamara Craig Thomas
Director: James Gunn (II)
Studio: TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Product Type: DVD

Description

A surprisingly moving retelling of the Bard's famous romantic tragedy in fine Troma fashion, complete with a Manhattan setting, gratuitous violence, body-piercing, and a hard-driving alternative soundtrack. Winner of the Raindance Audience Award. Tromeo and Juliet features the work of Scooby Doo and Dawn of the Dead screenwriter James Gunn and more tromatic obsessions than one can shake a nipple-ring at! In director Lloyd Kaufman's hands, Will Keenan and Jane Jensen provide an intoxicating screen chemistry that has garnered critical acclaim from critics everywhere. Featuring All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had, Tromeo and Juliet is a modern classic! Features a showstopping turn as Lemmy from Motorhead as the narrator.

Customer Reviews:

The best Shakespeare interpretation ever........2006-09-12

the best troma movie........2006-01-21

with toxic avenger part 4 being runner up to this film, i say this one is just classic. it has such a good atmosphere to it. thats all i have to say besides check it out.

A great little film.......2005-12-10

This is a fast, fun story based on Romeo and Juliet. It's got all the perversions you expect from a Lloyd Kaufman enterprise: graphic gratuitous violence, kinky sexual violence, incest, interesting nudity, and things I'm not sure there are polite words for. It's also got stunningly high production values for a Troma film, a good plot (lots of liberties were taken with the story, especially the ending,) acting that doesn't feel like a parody of acting, and character development that are usually far outside the abilities of a Troma film. If you didn't know it was Troma, you'd still like it.

Debbie does Juliet..........2005-08-13

I love it. This classic sits on my shelf next to Guin Turner's Preaching To The Perverted, and both are essential fringe/BDSM culture movies.

By far the most erotic scenes for me were those where Juliet is making love with the piercing and tattoo laden Ness, played by the divine Canadian-born Debbie Rochon. Debbie's Oscar-worthy orgasm sets an impossibly high standard for the rest of the movie, but it is still a first class piece of Pulp entertainment.

The other reviews have nailed it pretty well. Sex and violence, violence and sex. Yet even though the violence is of a Monty Python caricature nature, it pales compared to a lot of realistically portrayed violence as it appears in countless 'mainstream' movies.

It's basically a soft pornography movie with Alternate Reality classical pretensions, and goes infinitely beyond the excellent Di Caprio/Danes version of Romeo and Juliet in that regard.

Hilarious, crazy, sexy, whaddaya waiting for?

Could have been better, but still pretty good........2005-02-15

Tromeo and Juliet is a good movie. I'll say that much. It's very funny and much more clever than it presents itself to be. The funniest parts of the movie were the ones that were actually subtle plays on Shakespeare's play. For example, Juliet's fiance is named London in this movie, when his name was actually Paris. In fact, all of the names: Monty Que instead of Montague, Benny instead of Benvolio, Tyrone instead of Tybalt, and especially Ness instead of Nurse, were all very witty modernizations. An even more subtle play is when the characters start speaking in rhyme during the more dramatic moments, which was a device that Shakespeare actually used in his writing. What makes it so funny is the intelligence that lies beneath the goofy violence and explicit sex.

That said, the movie does kind of go downhill after Murray dies. Then, it just gets kind of stupid. After that point, the movie deviates more and more from the actual play, and it turns into a weird *rgy of cartoonish violence. It's almost as if the filmmakers wanted to escalate the humor as the actual story gets more tragic, but when the wonderful combination of smart humor and blood and guts is replaced by just the blood and guts, it's not quite the same. The ending could have better, too.

I liked the movie, but because the comedy towards the end felt kind of awkward, I found myself missing the Baz Luhrmann version. It's still very entertaining, though, if you don't expect too much.

Tromeo and Juliet (10th Anniversary Edition)

Average customer rating:

The ultimate dvd release of ANY film
All the blood, gore & kinky sex that Shakespeare would have wanted!
This 2-disc is going to be LOADED!!!

Tromeo and Juliet (10th Anniversary Edition)
Starring: Lloyd Kaufman , and James Gunn
Manufacturer: Troma
ProductGroup: DVD
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Release Date: 2006-08-22

Description

It's the 10th anniversary of Troma's landmark release Tromeo and Juliet! The first film written by James Gunn, who went on to write 2004's Dawn of the Dead and write/direct Slither, Tromeo and Juliet moves Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed love from 16th Century Verona to a crumbling modern day New York. Featuring all the body piercing, kinky sex, car crashes and dismemberment that Shakespeare always wanted but never had, Tromeo and Juilet is the most subversive and original literary adaptation ever put on screen!

Customer Reviews:

The ultimate dvd release of ANY film.......2006-09-12

William Shakespeare's play Romeo & Juliet has been interpreted hundreds of times on stage and in films. Sometimes literally following the original text (which is, at times, vague in stage directions), sometimes in new interpretations where directors chose to show their own view on the piece. Some are good, many are mediocre. Lloyd Kaufman's film certainly stands out as one of the most original, modern versions of the bard's creation, It may be placed in a modern-day decaying New York and full of the modern-day anti-social behavior, body piercing, dismemberment and kinky sex (which, for the more than casual reader, Shakespeare himself wasn't shying away from), but at the same time it stays incredibly close to the overall feel and point of what the play is all about, which is quite an effort. Kaufman wrote the script with his co-director on the film James Gunn, who is now famous for writing two successful Scooby Doo movies, doing the impossible by making a perfect remake of an already perfect film with his script for Dawn of the Dead and directing one of the best horror-films of the year: Slither. Lloyd Kaufmans innovative directorial view alongside with James Gunns original and unrestricted writing make for an interpretation of Shakespeare's play that maybe not everyone will "get" immediately, but will certainly be recognized by a truly unique and highly important view on a classic play. With a script that is written entirely in iambic meter, appearances of Motorhead's Lemmy and an outrageous forceful soundtrack watching Tromeo & Juliet is something no one will ever forget. Apart from it's historical significance, Tromeo &
Juliet is a treasure for film-lovers of all kind. Not only for the script by James Gunn, now a good influence on Hollywood while working from the inside, but also because it features an early part of legendary actress Debbie Rochon. Well known by everyone familiar with films that are made on lower budgets. The 10th anniversary edition on DVD adds to all that by including so many as-yet undiscovered gems that not only all the information one could wish for about the film itself and the experience of making it is presented in ways that make it impossible to turn off the DVD, but also a very honest (and disturbing) look is given into the ways independent cinema has to surviver these days. In many ways the extra's on the disc are an invaluable addition to the already impressive amount given on Kaufman's film-school "Make Your Own Damn Movie". Furtermore historical items from the Troma vaults which include James Gunn, Debbie Rochon and other contributors to this masterpiece are included, and the film itself is, apart from looking better then ever, accompanied by no less than four audio-commentaries, each and everyone informative, excruciatingly funny and all done for serious addition to the film instead of the boring and nonsensical commentaries that are so common these days. There are new
commentaries (one with Kaufman and Gunn together), but also the one James Gunn did for the original release of the DVD but couldn't be included there for some of honesty he displays about some other people is present on this disc. With fan-recreations of a few of the scenes from the film, a video diary of Lloyd Kaufman's visit to the set of James Gunn's Slither and a visit the two brought together to Eli Roth's Hostel Birthday party and much more, this is the ultimate set everyone must own. Weather you are a film historian, someone interested in interpretations of the great Bard's work, a fan of great cinema, a fighter for independent cinema, a fan of James Gunn, interested in learning more on making films on a low budget, a fan of Lloyd Kaufman or whatever: this is the most important DVD-release of this millennium!

All the blood, gore & kinky sex that Shakespeare would have wanted!.......2006-07-03

The title of the review says it all, this is one of the best films to come out of Troma films. Lloyd Kaufman & James Gunn out did themselves with this film. Even the soundtrack was excellent with Motorhead and Sublime contributing, just to name a few. The cast was first rate with Jane Jensen and Will Keenan playing the star crossed lovers. I expect the 10th Anniversary Edition's special features to be as outstanding as the film itself!

This 2-disc is going to be LOADED!!!.......2006-06-03

According to the Troma website, this 2-disc edition of TROMEO AND JULIET is going to include:

*4 different audio commentaries featuring writer James Gunn (SLITHER), director Lloyd Kaufman (THE TOXIC AVENGER), actor Sean Gunn (GILMORE GIRLS), film editor Frank Reynolds (IN THE BEDROOM) and Troma staff editor Gabriel Friedman (TERROR FIRMER, CITIZEN TOXIE, POULTRYGEIST).

*2 hours of interviews with cast and crew including Debbie Rochon (Ness), Tiffany Shepis (Peter), Sean Gunn (Sammy), Valentine Miele (Murray), Stephen Blackehart (Benny), and Lemmy (of Motorhead).

*GETTING HOSTEL WITH HOLLYWOOD: James Gunn and Lloyd Kaufman visit Eli Roth's birthday party.

*SLITHER-ING THROUGH HOLLYWOOD: A brand-new, expanded, uncut version of Lloyd Kaufman's video diary on the set of James Gunn's SLITHER.

*Deleted scenes, plus a featurette of James Gunn and Lloyd Kaufman commenting on the deleted scenes.

*Exclusive never-before-seen rehearsal footage of Jane Jensen and Debbie Rochon.

*Willie Wisely music video, featuring Andy Dick and Kara Monaco

*Classic Troma movie introductions featuring the cast of TROMEO AND JULIET

And more.

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