Next March 18th hits theaters the new Disney animated film. Gnomeo and Juliet is the title and, indeed, is a revision of William Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet . This time is the director Kelly Asbury (Shrek 2 , 2004) responsible for the direction of the tape. The classic story told a thousand times is framed here in a very special character: some garden gnomes come to life when their owners are not facing them. On one side are the clan of gnomes red, and on the other the blue gnomes. They are rivals and always live in different and adjacent gardens. What is impossible to happen between them by hatred for each other, just going on: a blue gnome, Gnomeo, fall in love with a red gnome, Juliet. We have the usual story but Disney version.
The approach seeks to be original. But nevertheless is quite noticeable influence of the Toy Story saga , as if to further exploit the mine of it: dolls with their own life apart from their owners, a menacing dog that terrorizes these little people, a dangerous sequence on the road with cars in the background ... Too many similarities in various situations, but far removed from the genius of the saga of John Lasseter. Here it seems that history is not well defined, and that sometimes moves at top speed. And it has too eagerly to make us laugh rather than tell a good story. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes not. Some secondary characters, like the frog, are the archetypal funny any Disney story, but here there has just exploded with laughter. Something missing. Similarly to figure parodies of Elton John (executive producer and songwriter of the soundtrack) just do not get what they want. In fact, it is too insistent.
The main weakness of the film based on the fact of trying to extract from a classic tragedy of a family film literature. First, because we know in advance that coming from Disney and being a movie for the general public can not go wrong (the end is actually very predictable from the start.) And, secondly, because the story lacks depth and ends up falling into the merely childish. This defect did not have movies like Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008), with a clear ecological message, or no further than Toy Story III ( Lee Unkrich, 2010) , that tastes great to bounce and sometimes a movie is dark, not especially designed for young audiences.
The main weakness of the film based on the fact of trying to extract from a classic tragedy of a family film literature. First, because we know in advance that coming from Disney and being a movie for the general public can not go wrong (the end is actually very predictable from the start.) And, secondly, because the story lacks depth and ends up falling into the merely childish. This defect did not have movies like Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008), with a clear ecological message, or no further than Toy Story III ( Lee Unkrich, 2010) , that tastes great to bounce and sometimes a movie is dark, not especially designed for young audiences.
But Gnomeo and Juliet can be seen. And it is noteworthy that even without a good script, in my opinion, these films are becoming better done from a technical standpoint. The texture of each plane, each doll is great, there is growing closer to the real world. Of all his strings, I prefer one that is fine. That they Gnomeo is talking to a statue of Shakespeare, and asks how it will end its own history, whether good or evil. Shakespeare replied that in line with his work should end tragically, for the writer is the perfect ending. The sequence is very grateful, halfway between the metaliterature and metacine. From what little commendable in an entertaining film, nothing more.
EDUARDO MUÑOZ
EDUARDO MUÑOZ
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