Gnomeo and Juliet
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Gnomeo and Juliet |
| Original title | Gnomeo and Juliet |
 | |
| Country of production |
United Kingdom United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kelly Asbury |
| script | Kelly Asbury Mark Burton Kevin Cecil Emily Cook Andy Riley Kathy Greenberg Steve Hamilton Shaw |
| production |
Baker Bloodworth David Furnish Steve Hamilton Shaw |
| music |
James Newton Howard Elton John Chris Bacon |
| cut | Catherine Apple |
| occupation | |
| chronology | |
|
Successor → |
|
Gnomeo and Juliet is a 2011 US - British computer animation film loosely based on the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare .
action
The enemies of Mrs. Montague and Mr. Capulet each live in part of an older mansion, one half of which is red and the other half blue. When they leave their halves of the house, the two gardens and their respective, of course warring red and blue garden gnomes and other figures come to life.
The blue garden gnome Gnomeo fights against the red dwarf Tybalt in a lawn mower race . Although during the race it looks like Gnomeo is going to win, Tybalt wins by destroying Gnomeo's lawnmower. When Gnomeo and his best friend Benny later want to take revenge on the Reds by spraying Tybalt's lawnmower with paint, Benny triggers a safety precaution that causes all the red dwarfs to be alerted and attack the two. You can escape and Gnomeo ends up in someone else's garden. There he met Count Zinnoberrot's daughter Julia. Both are trying to get an orchid to beautify the garden. They fall in love with each other and while they each want to take the orchid from the other, they discover that they come from warring clans.
When both are in their garden, Julia tells her best friend Nanette about their surprising encounter. Then Gnomeo and Juliet have a secret meeting in another garden, where they meet the garden flamingo Featherstone, who supports them and promotes their love. When Gnomeo comes back to his garden after this meeting, he sees his desperate mother mourning the destroyed plant of his deceased father. While Gnomeo was gone, Reds invaded the garden and devastated it.
Then the blue want revenge and Gnomeo realizes that he cannot refuse as long as he does not reveal his secret. He reaches the red garden through a tunnel and is about to spray the red's award-winning flowers when he is discovered by his Julia. He escapes and tells Benny that he could not carry out his assassination attempt because of a defective spray bottle. When Gnomeo and Julia meet afterwards, they start an argument, which is only interrupted by Featherstone with the words that other people's hatred is destroying their love. They apologize to each other and are about to kiss. However, they are distracted by Benny, who watches them and then escapes. He walks into an alley and is surprised by Tybalt with his lawnmower, who runs him over with it and knocks off his pointed cap . Gnomeo comes to the rescue and fights with Tybalt on his lawnmower until it crashes into a wall, whereby Tybalt splinters. Fawn aims a few stones at Gnomeo, while surprisingly Julia hurries to Gnomeo to help and wants to protect him from her family by saying that she loves him. Suddenly a jogger comes by and all the garden gnomes freeze into lifeless objects, while Gnomeo gets onto the adjacent street and hurls around between the moving cars.
After the jogger continued to run, everyone believes that Gnomeo has been run over by a car, faced with a pile of broken glass on the street. Julia's father sees his daughter's pain and sticks her to a well because he doesn't want to lose her like her mother. But Gnomeo was able to survive by climbing onto a truck. The ride ends in a park and Gnomeo climbs on the statue of William Shakespeare , to whom he tells his full story. He replies that it sounds almost exactly like his own story Romeo and Juliet and that Gnomeo will probably also see a sad ending.
Meanwhile, Benny buys an even bigger lawnmower online to get revenge on the red garden gnomes. But in the end this goes wrong because it destroys most of the two gardens. Meanwhile Gnomeo has managed to return and tried to free Julia from the well, but he fails. She asks him to go, but he refuses and kisses her. At that moment Benny's lawnmower crashes into the well, destroys it and frees Julia. Everyone believes that Gnomeo and Juliet did not survive. Count Zinnoberrot and Countess Blaublut realize that their feud is responsible for this catastrophe and decide on a truce. Both climb out of the rubble unharmed.
The film ends with the marriage of Gnomeo and Juliet.
Cast and dubbing
| Role (original) | speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Gnomeo | James McAvoy | Citizen Lars Dietrich |
| Julia | Emily Blunt | Maren Rainer |
| Count Zinnoberrot (Lord Redbrick) | Michael Caine | Jochen Striebeck |
| Tybalt | Jason Statham | Ekkehardt Belle |
| Countess Blaublut (Lady Blueberry) | Maggie Smith | Anita Höfer |
| William Shakespeare | Patrick Stewart | Peter Fricke |
| Nanette | Ashley Jensen | Anke Engelke |
| Benny | Matt Lucas | Bernhard Fleischmann |
| Paris | Stephen Merchant | Holger Ponik |
| Fawn | Ozzy Osbourne | Helmfried von Lüttichau |
| Featherstone | Jim Cummings | Robert Missler |
| Terrafirminator VO | Hulk Hogan | Thomas Albus |
| Mrs. Montague | Julie Walters | Eva Maria Bayerwaltes |
| Mr. Capulet | Richard Wilson | Niels Clausnitzer |
| Fishing Gnome | James Daniel Wilson | Nick oat grain |
Reviews
“Entertaining animated film that relocates the 'Romeo and Juliet' material to the milieu of two philistine gardens. Thanks to the playfully doubled artificiality of the subject, many good ideas and the coherent 3D technology, the warlike conflict that torpedoes the happiness of love is belittled in a child-friendly manner and not questioned further. "
“The fact that with the change from tragedy to comedy the real heart of history is torn out remains […] a problem. […] The filmmakers thoroughly scrub the philistine garden setting, but the challenge of moving the audience's heart is countered by the genuinely limited mimic repertoire of the photo-realistic animated garden gnomes. "
“ Gnomeo and Juliet not only insults majesty once, for example when the (speaking) Shakespeare statue in the adjoining park gets a load of bird droppings, the anarcho-humor [...] also shines through again and again in many other sequences [...]. Shakespeare has seldom been so much fun as with this hearty, of course not to be taken very seriously pointed hat massacre with a 100 percent happy end guarantee "
publication
After the film had its world premiere on January 23, 2010, its official US theatrical release was on February 11, 2011. Since then, it has grossed 189 million US dollars worldwide, of which 99.96 million US dollars in the USA . It started in Germany on March 24, 2011 and was seen by 399,839 cinema-goers. The DVD release was then on August 4, 2011.
Awards
- Nomination in the category “Best Film Song” for “Hello Hello” by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Trivia
In the film, in addition to Romeo and Juliet on which the film is based, there are some allusions to Shakespeare's plays. There is a ticket to the comedy What you want on the pin board in the old garden shed . The moving company is run by Rosenkranz and Güldenstern, two characters from Hamlet . Julia is glued to her base with a special glue. The glue is called the glue of taming, an allusion to The Taming of the Shrew . The house numbers of the enemy neighbors are "2B" and "Not 2B" - a reference to " To be or not to be ". Shakespeare himself also has a say, his statue tells Gnomeo the tragic end of Romeo and Juliet. The film is also set in Stratford-upon-Avon , where Shakespeare was born, lived and also died.
The pink garden flamingo is called Featherstone - a reference to Donald Featherstone , the inventor of the garden flamingos , which are popular front garden decorations in many areas of the USA.
continuation
The sequel Sherlock Gnomes was released in 2018, but it has little in common with the first film in terms of content and style and received significantly more negative reviews.
Web links
- Gnomeo and Juliet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gnomeo and Julia in the German synchronous file
- Gnomeo and Julia in the Lexicon of International Films
- Internet presence (English) of Gnomeo and Juliet
- Internet presence (German) of Gnomeo and Julia
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Gnomeo and Juliet . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 487 K).
- ↑ Age designation for Gnomeo and Juliet . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Dubbing actors for Gnomeo and Julia on mediabiz.de , accessed on March 12, 2011
- ↑ Gnomeo and Juliet at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed October 21, 2011
- ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 2011 on insidekino.de , accessed on October 21, 2011