Product: Romeo and Juliet [Region 2] (1968)
Rating: 3.0
Taking A Great Story & Making an Passing Movie
We all know the story of Romeo & Juliet, two young couples from the opposing families of Montague (Romeo's Family) & Capulet (Juliet's Family) fall in love after a party and then elope. And then when Juliet is forced by his father to marry another man she doesn't love so she pretends (with a little help of a sleeping potion) she is dead and is taken to a Mosuluem where the plan is to have Romeo get her and run away. However the famous ending is that Romeo doesn't know about her wife's sleeping potion plot and goes to the moseluem anyway after finding out about her death. And not being able to live without his beloved he kills himself with poison. Juliet later wakes up and finds Romeo dead and for the same reason kills her self but with a self-inflicted stab wound. And then the two once opposing families make peace. Now thats a story in a nutshell which is pretty good. However the movie although with realistic setting & realistic looking cast (meaning they look like the original play said like they looked)just isn't a good movie out of the great storyline. The scenes are cartonish and the jokes are hidden puns which takes incredible amounts of thinking to get it and see they aren't even funny. The acting is a bit robotic and unreal. And the scenes are really boring-making me almost go to sleep. So basically the movie is too fake and not enough real drama to keep me enticed.