GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
Kinley
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
BA_Harrison
Lloyd Kaufman and James Gunn give Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers the Troma treatment, infusing the bard's play with the studio's trademark brand of gross-out gags, cartoonish violence, and sex and nudity. The result is typically tasteless and extremely juvenile, with wee, poo, fart, and penis jokes aplenty, but it also manages to be a surprisingly fun slice of nonsense, Kaufman and Gunn melding their lunacy with Shakepeare's prose to form a script that will delight Troma fans while somehow still managing to keep the whole affair surprisingly faithful to the original (at least until the ending).Okay, Shakespeare probably didn't envisage Lemmy from Motorhead as narrator of his work, nor is it likely that he ever anticipated the addition of a kiddie-fiddling priest, Juliet (the lovely Jane Jensen) making it with (T)Romeo inside a Plexiglas box, or a mutant cow/Juliet equipped with a massive schlong, but he wasn't above using vulgar tactics of his own, as evidenced by the gore-fest that is Titus Andronicus, the incestuous nature of both Pericles and Hamlet, and the countless crude sexual innuendos in his other plays. In short, I like to think Will would have appreciated Kaufman and Gunn's efforts to please their audience.
Professor T&A
This isn't the worst Troma film I've seen. It was better than Surf Nazis Must Die! but no where near the caliber of Toxic Avenger or Nukem' High. It only has a little nudity and only one good sex scene so I'd say skip this flick if you're looking for cheap thrills. You know the story, the special effects are par for an 80's B movie and the laughs are far and few between. I found myself distracted during this movie and kept checking the clock to see if it was almost over yet. Not the worst flick I've sat through but I won't be watching this again. Skip the popcorn and save the beer because even though this movie is available to watch right now from streaming Netflix it ranks too low on the T&A scale for me to recommend.
Bagyo7
I gave it a 3 for adaptation effort and another 3 for being the precursor for Waking Dead.Three for human characters, another three for zombies acting, or were those the Thespians? I meant actors. Were those actors? I'm just so traumatized. But it was fun, like a car chase, waiting for the accident to happen.Honestly, there's still working actors from this film. Tiffany Sheppis, still Hot. Ron Jeremy. Enough Said.We really need a TJ2. If only for more pop-corn fun. If we were drunk.
Ron in LA
Tromeo is a trashy love story based on and borrowing from the Shakespeare classic. Kaufman seeks out opportunities for shocking visuals, all of which are softened by a consistently humorous and cartoonish mood. No subject is taboo, as incest, child abuse, masturbation, and priest molestation are all explored with a free, irreverent spirit. There are sequences in which silent film slapstick routines are redone with post-censorship, midnight movie gross-out sensibilities. Plus you can count on sex scenes with an appropriate reverence for the beauty of female breasts.Interwined with the goofy gross-outs and the near-soft-core sex is a subtle and intelligent social commentary about the absurdity of life in the 1990's, mainly the lost-generation Gen-X types.I saw it at a 4/2009 festival where Kaufman was around for Q & A and if you want to blame someone for spreading the rumor that the film is all in iambic pentameter you can start with the film's director because he made the claim twice. It didn't sound like pentameter to me, except for the passages taken from Shakespeare, and a few passages carefully written in a Shakespearean style.
