** 1/2 (out of 4)
Includes voices of James Macavoy, Emily Blunt, Jason Statham,
Matt Lucas and Michael Caine. Directed by Kelly Asbury. Approx.
84 minutes.
A few centuries ago, the famous playwright William Shakespeare wrote a romantic play called Romeo and Juliet. It told the story of two people who fell in love and weren't supposed to fall in the love. In the end, everyone in the play gets killed, but people actually like it, believe it or not.
Now, in 2011, the director of Shrek 2, Kelly Asbury, has released a movie with basically the same story, only with garden gnomes. It tells the story of Gnomeo (ha ha), who is voiced by James Macavoy who falls in love with Juliet (Emily Blunt), a garden gnome that is part of a family that Gnomeo's family hates. They try and keep it a secret, but of course, if no one found out, this would be one heck of a boring film. So, of course, they have to have near deaths of garden gnomes and lots of destruction. This happens in this movie.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie, I thought it looked like junk. I didn't laugh once during the entire preview. However, I still saw the movie because the critics didn't pan it. It turned out to be not so bad. I laughed at some of the jokes. For example, a garden reindeer (Ozzy Osbourne) is playing a guessing game and his ideas are always guessed.
``Okay, I'm thinking of a movie. It's one word and it starts with ``spider''.''
``Spiderman?''
``Wow! You're really good at this! Okay, now I'm thinking of a movie. It's two words and starts with ``Spiderman''.''
`` ``Spiderman 2''?''
``Okay, who's cheating?''
However, this movie was not like any of my favourite animated movies such as ``Toy Story 3'', ``Fantastic Mr. Fox'', ``Despicable Me'' or ``Up''. However, I'm pretty sure this movie was not trying to be a piece of art. I think it was just supposed to be a quick and enjoyable animated movie for kids. If that was the creator of this movie's goal, then they succeeded. I think kids will like this movie a lot. It's got some action and it's got a lot of comedy. So, it's no instant classic, but heck, it's not too bad.
