Audience Rated by buyers PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Type of bind: Video On Demand
Release Date: September 09, 2008
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 8300
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1996
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As a high-school teacher for English foundations, I try my best to expose my students to the literature their peers in regular English classes receive. I must utilize movies as a visual aide supplement to help them connect with the characters, setting, dialogue... I strongly recommend using this dvd to support your curriculum to teach on all levels of student learning (auditory, kinesthetic, visual).
My students LOVE this movie. They anticipate the subsequent Shakespearen novel.
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I loved reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It is a classic tragic love story and I have every line memorized. I was so excited when this movie came out and I wasn't disapointed.
I liked how it was modernized so viewers of yesterday could relate to the play. I actually liked that the dialogue in this film mirrors the original text. Something would be missing if they changed the dialogue.
Of course some of the acting is overdone and can be a little "cheesy" at times but it fits great with the story.
I also enjoyed the music so if you liked the movie, you should pick up the soundtrack as well.
I definitely recommend this DVD to the hopeless romantics out there as well as any fan of Shakespeare.
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I general like Shakespeare to be done in the time it was written for. However, I enjoy anything that Leonardo DiCaprio or Clair Dane does and totally enjoy this film eventhough it has been brought up to date. I give it four stars only because of this.
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This is a great movie and the format is also wonderful in that you can stop the DVD and just look and listen to certain songs in the film. It's a terrific way to present a classic..
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First of all, why the need to call it "William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet"?
I mean, was there a danger of the public confusing it with Barbara Cartland's or Edgar Allen Poe's Romeo & Juliet?
Are the producers of this piece of tripe so supercilious that they feel the viewing public wouldn't know who wrote Romeo & Juliet? Are they? Are they?
As to the film itself, little more need be said about the performances (uniformly terrible), the music (annoying) and the "modern" updating (ludicrous).
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