Tromeo and Juliet

Tromeo, son of Monty Que, falls madly in love with the beautiful Juliet, daughter of arch enemy Cappy Capulet. The life-long hatred the two families have had for each other is not going to come between him and the woman he loves. Tromeo is greatly distressed when he learns that Juliet is already promised to the son of a rich merchant. Thus far you can detect certain similarities to the original play. Everything else in this film is however extremely free interpretation by the Troma Team's feverish imagination. They have previously quenched our cinematic thirst with such original productions as The Toxic Avenger and Blondes Have More Guns. In America they have cult status as innovative filmmakers in a low budget filmmakers promised land, Tromaville, with its own home page on the Internet. Tromeo and Juliet takes place in present day New York. The rivalry between the two families began when Monty and Cappy ran Silky Films together: a film company producing clumsy soft porn. Tromeo's father was forced to assign the whole company to Cappy; a decision which left Monty in a deep depression and gave Cappy fame and fortune. Hatred between the families explodes suddenly one day when Sammy, Juliet's cousin, after an involuntary car journey (trapped in the Que family's car door) is killed on a fire-hydrant. To avenge Sammy's death, Juliet's cousin, Tyrone, beats Tromeo's friend Martini to death. After this, the violence escalates to an unimaginably morbid degree… Grotesque splatter effects, countless sexual situations and insinuations, a heavy Lemmy from Motorhead as narrator and a violent crucifixion of Shakespeare is what is on offer in this film. The pace is fast, the dialogue snappy and an unimportant intrigue is chiefly used as an excuse for the bad taste which is free and easily thrown into the face of the viewer. Sometimes tasteless and entertaining (as in a dream sequence when Juliet become pregnant from popcorn and rats!), and sometimes tastelessly puerile (such as Monty Que's constant farting), but it is always with a degree of irony and with a humorous twinkle in the eyes. As a parodic counterbalance to among others Kenneth Branagh's adaptions of the great writer's work, this film has a definite place in film history. Or maybe not. Tromeo & Juliet is not a film for the easily offended or weak-stomached, but it is as it ought to be, or it wouldn't be a Troma-film. PL

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Jane Jensen, Will Kennan, Valentine Miele: Producent
Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz: Manus
James Gunn & Lloyd Kaufman, based on the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare: Foto
Brendan Flynt: Musik
Willie Wisely: Talat språk
English