Review of Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) by Alexia R — 20 Jan 2013

It's hard to give it a rating, but I now know for sure what I thought about this movie. I enjoyed it, it was fun, clever and entertaining, it's for sure not the best animated movie I've seen, Kung Fu Panda and Toy Story surprass this movie, but I think it's a remarcable animated movie, kids will like it much more than grown ups, because kids in this days, if they watch an animated movie, just if it's animted, it's awesome right away, I don't blame kids for that, and I don't blame who loves this movie, I just think that it's okay and there's people who will like it more than others. I thought it was okay.

Kelly Asbury directs this movie, I don't really know him that well, but when I found out he was the guy who directed Shrek 2, wich I don't love, I didn't stay that much happy, but that's okay, he didn't made a terrible movie. James McAvoy voices Gnomeo, I think he was a very good choise for a british cast, he voiced the character well, he is now being chosen for much animtaed movies and it looks he always gets the chance to voice the main character, like he did in this movie, and in Arthur Christmas, James is known from Wanted, Arhur Christmas, X-Men: First Class, Penelope, Atonement and some other movies. Emily Blunt was in my opinion, probably the best choise they cood make to voice Juliet, Emily Blunt is currently one of my favorite british actresses and I think she was necessary to be in this movie, Emily is known from The Adjustmant Bureau, the upcoming The Five-Year Engagement, Dan in Real Life, The Wolfman, Gulliver's Travels, The Muppets and some other movies. The rest of the voice cast was completed by Michael Caine (Great Choise), Maggie Smith and Jason Statham. Overall, this movie has a good voice cast, but not terrific.

The Red Gnomes live in a house's garden and the house next door also has a garden, where the Blue Gnomes live. The Reds and the Blues are always fighting. Gnomeo (James McAvoy) is Blue Gnome who's very brave and never rephuses to attack the Red Gnomes. Juliet (Emily Blunt) is a Red Gnome who wants to show her daddy how she really is, how can she pick up beautiful flowers and other stuff like that. One day, Gnomeu and Juliet accidently meet he schoulder, Gnomeo was filled with paint and Juliet was wearing a diskize, so they didn't know wich was their colour, but until they found out, they were already in love. Gnomeo and Juliet have now a forbitten love and even though they can't be caught, they will do anything just to be toghether. Sow, as you can see this movie is clever, the famous "Romeo and Juliet" with Gnomes, even though this movie is quite diferent from the real story and they still say this is an adaptation. Overall, this movie's plot was okay.

The soundtrack has some several songs by Elton Jonh, I mean, not several, I think they repeated the song Saturday milions of time in milions of diferent ways, so I'm not sure what to say about that, but I liked the soundtrack. The animation was considered bad for some people, but I actually liked it, I think the gnomes looked real and in one to ten, this animation disirves at least a nine or an eight, liked the animation. I can surprisingly say that this movie has action scenes, what it's good, besides being laughing you can also be watching a bit of action that doesn't seem to be stupid just because this movie is rated G.

Besides all that I am going to tell you what I really thought about this movie. First of all, I'm probably the only one who think this is movie is pretty similliar to Toy Story, right, this movie is basicly Toy Story with gnomes, who are fighting he schoulder, Toy Story can't be compared to this movie, who seems it was trying to be awesome. For sure, it will not win an Oscar, it will also not be nominated, but I don't doubt if it's getting at least, an animation for a good award. This movie didn't had the same ending from "Romeo and Juliet" just because this movie was ment for kids, wich I support, I wood do that to if I directed this movie. Overall, this movie doesn't have the special ingredient we like to watch in an animated flick, there's missing something there, it cood be much better, but that's okay, it was a good risk. I liked this movie, it has a good soundtrack, a good voice cast, it's hilarious and it's entertaining, not the best animted movie of 2011 for sure, but it's worth to watch. Overall, quite good movie. Worth a shot.

Give it a try, it's actually good. Recommended movie. Grade: C.