Gnomeo and Juliet Review

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When someone told me that there was a film called Gnomeo and Juliet coming out, "like Romeo and Juliet, but with gnomes." I laughed and thought it was a bad joke but it wasn't. It was what Elton John has been doing for the past ten years except opening a clothes shop and having a baby. He sees a new humorous children's animation as gnomes. Yes, kids get a few laughs when they see the bus adverts, 'pain in the grass' and 'a little adventure goes a lawn way' but this film wastes it's decent jokes on the trailer. Ruining this perfect little kid's flick. Apart from some dire gnome jokes ("holy matrognomey"), ear-splitting Elton John songs and Sir Patrick Stewart playing Shakespeare, it isn't half bad. With a A-list cast, Jason Statham, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine and Julie Walters, it comes out not half bad with the surnames of the humans (Montague and Capulet, those were the surnames in Shakespeares' Romeo and Juliet.) It's an enjoyable kid's film that goes a long way.


3.5/5