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Summary: Romeo and Juliet
Review: It is the best movie I've ever seen, a piece of art.
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Summary: Great movie but should be PG 13
Review: wonderful but not for preteens this movie contains sexual situations and nude people. It Got A PG
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Summary: The Genius Of Zeffirelli
Review: Without a doubt Franco Zeffirelli shows his genius in this - the best production of Romeo and Juliette ever made - with a talented cast, timely music and songs, wonderful scenery, and of course superb direction. Like his "Jesus of Nazareth", "Hamlet," and "Taming of the Shrew," Franco Zeffirelli has a feel for presenation - making the viewer get a sense of reality about the drama being played out. It is a marvelous illusion only he - the magician of the cinema could achieve. As in all his productions the director makes the audience relate on a personal level to the play. I have seen a few different versions Romeo and JUliette and this is the only one that got to me!
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Summary: Shakespeare in the late 1960's
Review: OK, it's a campy, strange vision of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET. And yes, there are scenes and lines missing from the original play (what happens to Paris at the end??). However, the beautiful setting and the wonderful acting of the two lead roles (especially the beautiful Olivia Hussey) make this worth seeing. It's not as jazzy as the new version with Leo and Clair, but it is still a classic version of a classic play.
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Summary: GASP! Wow!
Review: This version is by far the best one I've seen. The acting is great, the set is superb, the music is wonderful, I could go on all day. This is a video to be veiwed only if you have a box of tissues within half an arm's reach, especially if you're like me. (I was tearing from the balcony scene all the way to the ending credits!) One part made me laugh, though. At one point, Juliet is kneeling on the floor crying next to the nurse. She then falls over and out of camera veiw. All you hear is "*flop* WAAAHHHH!" Ok, what I'm trying to say is this: look no further, this, by definition, is the quintessential Romeo and Juliet.
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Summary: The DEFINITIVE version of R&J on film!
Review: It doesn't matter which versions of R&J you've seen. You haven't really SEEN it until you watch this gorgeous film. My mother saw this film as a teenager and rented it when I was quite young. It got me hooked on Shakespeare! I've seen it so many times, I can quote the dialogue word for word. Yes, there are scenes and dialogue omitted, but if they can edit the bible for film, I think they can edit Shakespeare. The story loses nothing from these omissions. In fact it gains a faster, meteoric pace, taking us with the young lovers as they soar high on love at first site, plunge into tragedy, and finally meet their violent ends. Leonard Whiting is a tender, poetic, marvelous Romeo, but Olivia Hussey steals the film with her passionately perfect performance of Juliet. Remarks have been made about her crying "too much". Hello??!! Critics who diss her for this have obviously never been a thirteen year old girl. Your hormones are going wacko at thirteen. I would sometimes cry at At&T commercials when I was thirteen, and Juliet certainly had more cause to cry than that! The haunting score by Nino Rota (who also scored the "The Godfather") heightens every single scene in which it is used. The music conveys the emotions of this story so well, it is almost a character itself. Pick up the soundtrack! It is phenomenal!
I have seen many versions of R&J over the years. Every film version, many plays, but none compare to this. Particularly, no Juliet I have ever seen has compared with the vitality, passion, and almost unreal beauty of Olivia Hussey. She becomes Juliet in every way. I won't say another actress will *never* compare to her performance, but so far, noone has even come close to matching it.
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Summary: Missing pieces
Review: Excellent acting, but many lines from the original version have been left out entirely. The basic plot is all there and you see everything that happens to Romeo and Juliet, but some of the smaller scenes that Shakespeare included for atmosphere and humor have been left out entirely.
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Summary: The film that made me a Shakespeare fan
Review: Before she made us study "Romeo and Juliet" in High School, my English teacher had the wisdom to show us this version of Romeo and Juliet. I had always thought that Shakespeare was for wimps. Once I watched the initial brawling scene on the TV screen, I was hooked. It is one of my favorite films of all time.
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Summary: one of my all time top five
Review: For me this one is up there with "One Flew over the Cuckoos nest", "Lord of the Rings", "Amadeus" and "Star Wars". You can't blame subsequent adaptions for adding guns and rap music because as far as I'm concerned this version tells the traditional tale of Romeo and Juliet as well as a film can. (the only change I'd make would be editing out a few sobs here and there.) It surprises me that this is the only version out there with "child" actors because Romeo and Juliets age is an essencial part of what makes the plot and dialogue psychologicaly belevable to me.
This is more of a directors film than an actors film. It's acted wonderfully but probably more because the actors were well chosen for the parts and less because they were skilled at the craft of acting. Director, Franco Zeffirelli manages to enact the most paradied moment in western drama, the balcony scene, in a way that is at once so fresh and so fearlessly pure and straightforeward that I felt like I was watching an age old natural phenominon (like a sunrise) for the first time. The only people I've met who don't love this film are folks who don't connect with the play in the first place. Also, whoever wrote the dialogue did a nice job.P.S. If a dated 1960s look bothers you then get the remastered widescreen DVD. It feels more timeless.
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Summary: pretty good...
Review: Okay, this film was exceptionally good. I enjoyed watching it, I thought it was romantic and beautiful and yadda yadda yadda. I reccomend it to everybody. The reason I gave it four stars was because, well, lets put it this way--the acting is great, but after a while a lot of it was whiney, and the crying was a bit fake every once in a while...it started to get annoying. But thats my only complaint. I really thought it pretty good though.
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