Tromeo and Juliet Reviews

fans of troma films will be surprised that theres actually some quality here. the rest of us will still be shaking our heads.

take one part shakespeare, cut its head off, and piss down its neck and for good trome-o-asure have sex with the corpse too.

what little of romeo and juliet is followed here is a somewhat interesting take on the story. if you think this is going to be like the 1996 romeo and juliet's wild take on the story, think again. what troma people (lets not go far as call them filmmakers or the like) want to do is shock you. and here they want to take a cute movie and bastardize it. its obvious they saw the 1996 film and thought "lets make a troma version of it". fine. if thats all it was it'd work out fairly well.

part of troma films is really unprofessional everything. forget acting, forget following plot, forget everything and make something shocking. except whats always abundantly clear about troma people is that they aren't intelligent enough to pull off something clever enough to be shocking. what they do instead is throw anything and everything at you that you might find offensive. and thats where, in their minds, they succeed. unfortunately its at a price; the viewers tolerance and self respect.

i'll admit that much of the film, although slow, is not half bad. far from below average, and not in a good way, but still watchable. however, the use of incest in the movie is not shocking, not clever, not realistic (as if), its simply a pornographic obsession of someone whom i assume is involved in writing this. it comes as tedious, awkward, and without merit. and frankly, above all, it ruins the film. what could have been a fairly competent nonsense is instead nothing more than amateur fetishism. why don't they quit being half-assed and just make a porno. do it like you mean it or quit wasting your time. i wouldn't watch it but at least it wouldn't suffer the fate of a fake childish masturbation that this is.

honestly i wish this was a better film.

3/10