Baz Luhrmann’s kaleidoscopic film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, while often leaving much to be desired from the two main actors in the way of delivery, presents a fascinating modern interpretation of the 16th century drama. David Ansen, film critic, describes it as “alternately enrapturing and exhausting, brilliant and glib…a "Romeo and Juliet" more for the eyes than the ears” (Newsweek).

I like adaptations of Shakespeare. He often adapted well-known stories and so the plots of his plays would have been very familiar to his audience—the fall of Troy would have been a bedtime story, the legend of Romeo and Juliet a fairy tale, and A Midsummer's Night's Dream, with its forest-bound love story featuring a man turned into an ass by tricksy fairies, a pre-Brother's Grimm fable.

"romeo and Juliet" a tragic play written by William Shakespeare, tess the story of thw teenage lovers who get caught up with the clash of the family's ongoing conflict.

Parents need to know that Gnomeo & Juliet is a Shakespeare-inspired animated comedy that features some of the same overall themes as Romeo and Juliet, minus most of the bloodshed and the tragic ending. Although there's still serious enmity between the Montague and the Capulet gnomes, the violence isn't as prominent.

Gnomes haven't occupied much of a role in our popular culture since the days of prime minister John Major, and his eccentric elder brother Terry reminiscing about the garden ornament business that once brought their south London family to ruin.