More madness from the Troma stable, which would no doubt have the Bard rolling in his grave if he knew about it. What this film may lack in taste it makes up for in sheer pacing and endless streams of jokes. Thanks to the direction of experienced film buff Lloyd Kaufman, there are plenty of jokes and (attempted) laughs in every single scene, almost overwhelmingly so. Therefore this movie instantly beats the amateurish, boring efforts that Troma have released in the past like CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIE TOWN, where invariably the title would be more interesting than the movie itself.
An extremely loose adaptation of the story, this mixes in Shakespearian dialogue with more modern fare in a sometimes funny way ("what light through yonder Plexiglas breaks?"). It's a more believable update of the tale than the similarly themed - and far too MTV-ish for its own good - ROMEO + JULIET with Leonardo DiCaprio was. The usual ingredients are here, from regular gross-out humour, lesbianism, splatter effects (containing the usual quota of severed heads and limbs), squeamish moments (body piercing in particular), sometimes witty humour, visual sight gags, and strange situations. There is at least one funny joke in this film, set in a butcher's where a giant maggot is discovered in the cellar and made into hot dogs! The acting is amateur, again, but everyone fits their particular role well, especially Will Keenan who is pretty convincing as Romeo. Although this kind of crude humour isn't to my taste, I'm sure that fans of other Troma fare will have a field day with this.
An extremely loose adaptation of the story, this mixes in Shakespearian dialogue with more modern fare in a sometimes funny way ("what light through yonder Plexiglas breaks?"). It's a more believable update of the tale than the similarly themed - and far too MTV-ish for its own good - ROMEO + JULIET with Leonardo DiCaprio was. The usual ingredients are here, from regular gross-out humour, lesbianism, splatter effects (containing the usual quota of severed heads and limbs), squeamish moments (body piercing in particular), sometimes witty humour, visual sight gags, and strange situations. There is at least one funny joke in this film, set in a butcher's where a giant maggot is discovered in the cellar and made into hot dogs! The acting is amateur, again, but everyone fits their particular role well, especially Will Keenan who is pretty convincing as Romeo. Although this kind of crude humour isn't to my taste, I'm sure that fans of other Troma fare will have a field day with this.