One enormous acid trip

Rating: Null/10 (17 August 2011)

Honestly, I loved it. It was one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen, but somehow it worked. Leonardo DiCaprio is eye candy but pulls off Romeo to some extent (when he's not butchering the lines) since he's pretty much just a shallow lovestruck teenage idiot anyhow. It looked like Claire Danes was wearing less makeup than DiCaprio, which shows because she's ugly. Fortunately, Romeo was supposed to be high when he fell in love with her, so that makes it slightly more credible.
As far as the whole Shakespearean dialogue goes it is slightly out of place and would be very strange in most movies. But this isn't most movies and because, as aforementioned, the whole thing has the feeling of an acid trip, you just accept it along with the mother on speed and the gangstas wearing Hawaiian shirts and the black guy in drag.
The movie is quite hilarious, although unfortunately most of the humor is unintentional. The acting is hit-and-miss, (with a lot of miss) but all in all Romeo + Juliet is entertaining enough.