This review summarizes the animated film Gnomeo & Juliet. It is a comedy loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where neighboring gardens are divided by a feud between blue-hatted and red-hatted garden gnomes. The film finds a balance of humor for both children and adults without being inappropriate for kids or straying too far from the source material for parents. The animation and setting depicting the lives of garden gnomes are praised for being well-done. The only criticism is that the trailer focuses more on the romance element than the light comedy.

1. Cinema English
Dept of Applied Foreign Languages
Spring 2011, jmschow@wmail.hcu.edu.tw
05-19-2011
Gnomeo & Juliet
User Review
Fun stuff for kids, more than OK for their parents
In the beautiful British town of Stratford-Upon-Avon there's a street where the owners
of two neighbouring houses have no idea of the rich lives being led in their
backyards. In these backyards there are two groups of garden gnomes—one garden
is ruled by the blue hatted variety, the other is ruled by the red hatted variety. An age
old feud, of which the reason has long since been forgotten, is keeping them apart,
but unexpected events might just be enough to get them back together again.
Loosely based on the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo And Juliet, this animation film
keeps the middle line between tragicomedy and romance. Like many animation films
being made these last years it combines fun things for kids with fun things for adults,
without hurting either group (the innuendo that is fun for adults is not seen by kids
whose innocence protects them from it, the deviation from the original tales to make
it fun for kids is not so warped that it makes it unrecognisable for their parents).
The animation is great—the gnomes and the gardens are just lovely to watch. The
setting with gnomes is flawless—the sounds, the implications of being a garden
gnome—it works out really well.
If there would be one bit of negativity for this film it is that its trailer is a bit too biased
towards an audience that wants to see romance instead of a bit of light comedy.