Saturday, July 30, 2011

Movie review: Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)

Although a scarce few scenes may have you laugh, think not Gnomeo and Juliet at all concerned with entertaining adult audiences drawn to the theater with the target group of small children. Juvenile humor and immaturity run rampant, which makes more annoyingly hyperactive supporting characters, resulting in a tug-of-war between eye rolling and grimacing. Plenty of attention has been given to the texturing and detailing of clay creatures, although the mishmash of ceramic materials, squash and Stretch animation and clanking stone sound effects originate general acceptance as much as rehashed the use of sudden immobility in the presence of humans (at least we are given the basic rules for gnome desirability: a rotund stomach and an tykspidse hat). With tired Matrix parodies, more bland character designs and a flamingo (voiced by Jim Cummings, who reuses its own unique voice of Don Karnage from talespin) and a seed not stop jabbering, it is quite likely that you are begging stops for clock-in and hope it remains faithful to Shakespeare's original Play.

It is love at first sight when blue garden decoration Gnomeo (James McAvoy) meets red lawn ornament Juliet (Emily Blunt). There is only one problem-they belong to opposing factions of ceaseless feud between recreational facilities. As pranks and repayments will continue to escalate among the warring forces, Gnomeo and Juliet realize they must bring the conflict to an end, if they want to find true happiness, and change the tragic fate hit their notes.

Gnomeo and Juliet starts with an amusing pun for a title and just went for it-a feature-length animated film with nothing else than a one-dimensional riff on a universally famous circuses. Situations or even creative jokes about Shakespeare, and armed with the remains of a arktitektur-together, horribly generic rip of the most basic love story, is void of any screen magic without interesting characters in this half-hearted attempts at family entertainment. None of the pieces combine to make even the slightest form of fun; tragedy is included for the sake of staying reminds the source material (and then immediately withdrawn), romance is childish and humor is hopelessly infantile.

There is no shortage of gnome jokes or goofy greetings to Shakespeare, although only one rib is successful (and it is not a parody of American Beauty). Many of the physical gags are repetitive, pie in the face of monkeyshines and other stale attempt obnoxious buffoonery, often accompanied by complex setups for completely independent material. Each supporting characters fight head loosely add comic relief, most of them are tired and humorless, making the reach for laugh exactly far more painful. If lack of amusement is not enough to remind us about other total failure in the animation (such as Planet 51 and battle for Terra), Elton John, who is also Executive produces, stuffed production with inappropriate, out-of-place songs that suck the life from each scene of whimsy and each already humdrum montage.

-Massie twins ( GoneWithTheTwins.com )


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