Take a very good look at the picture to your left. Now, tell me what you're thinking as you see what amounts to a bastardized take on a classic William Shakespeare play. Yes folks, the fine folks at Troma have their sexed up version of Romeo and Juilet titled, appropriately, Tromeo and Juliet.If you have read the Shakespeare play at all, and don't lie, I'm sure your high school English teacher made you read it at some point, then you know the basic plot of Tromeo and Juliet. So I won't waste any time here. What I will regale you with is that the movie is narrated by Lemmy (You've probably heard of him), and it becomes obvious that Lemmy is reading from the cue cards. The conflict between the Ques (Troma shortened it from the Montaques) and Capulets centers around one group stealing a movie production from the other (Take a good guess what kind of movie production it is and you win absolutely nothing). The story here follows the Shakespeare version, except that we are intorduced to numerous freaky people and strange things that Troma is known for (the popcorn scene being the best example here).
As someone who isn't greatly into either Shakespeare or Troma, as both require patience and some discipline, I found this to be quite an interesting take on the classic play. The younger set should stay away from this though, as like all Troma films, there is a fair share of nudity and violence.
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