Tromeo sneaks into the house of Capulet and the two meet once again. Cappy, disgusted at his daughter’s active libido, forcefully imprisons her in a plastic cage as punishment. Tromeo and Juliet continue to be enamored by one another from afar. The two instantly fall for each other and share a dance until an angry Tyrone chases him out of the house.
Tromeo staggers around the party in disillusion until he locks eyes with those of Juliet.
On the insistence of Murray and Benny, Tromeo attends the Capulets' masquerade ball in the hopes of meeting Rosie, only to find another man performing cunnilingus on her. Sammy gets caught in the window of Monty’s speeding car, where he is thrown head-first into a fire hydrant and (very slowly) dies. Almost immediately afterwards, Monty and Cappy start threatening each other with weapons. In the meantime, a bloody brawl between Murray and Sammy Capulet catches the attention of Detective Ernie Scalus, who gathers the heads of the two families together and declares that they will be held personally accountable for any further breaches of peace. Juliet is sequestered in her family’s mansion, watched over by her abusive father Cappy, passive mother Ingrid, and overprotective cousin Tyrone, all the while being sexually satisfied by family servant Ness ( Debbie Rochon).īoth Tromeo and Juliet are trapped in cases of unrequited love: Tromeo lusts for the big-bosomed, promiscuous Rosie Juliet is engaged to wealthy meat tycoon London Arbuckle as prelude to an arranged marriage. Tromeo lives in squalor with his alcoholic father Monty and works at a tattoo parlor with his cousin Benny and friend Murray. Set in modern-day Manhattan, the film begins with the narrator ( Lemmy of Motörhead) introducing two families: the Capulets and the Ques.Īt the center of these families are Tromeo Que and Juliet Capulet. The title of the film is a portmanteau of " Troma" and "Romeo & Juliet". The film is more or less a faithful adaptation of the play except with the addition of extreme amounts of Troma-esque sexuality and violence, as well as a revised ending. The film was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and co-directed by James Gunn, who also wrote the film's screenplay. Also, instead of mutual suicide, the surprise siblings decide to move to the suburbs and live in incestuous bliss and have a bunch of deformed kids.įans of Titus Andronicus, if any, know that incest, mutilation and Shakespeare aren't actually such strange bedfellows, but the Gunn brothers' take on Romeo And Juliet is definitely one of the more bizarre versions of that particular story.Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment. actually follows the plot beats of the play pretty closely, just with the addition of details like Tromeo's father having signed away his porn empire to cover up the fact that Tromeo is actually the son of Juliet's father. Unlike in Luhrmann's version, Juliet is locked in a plastic cage for having too much lesbian sex with her nurse and then electrocutes her father with a computer monitor. Like the Luhrmann film, Troma's take on the Bard's tale of star-crossed lovers updates the story to modern America. The Gunn-scripted Tromeo And Juliet came out in 1996, the same year as the Baz Luhrmann-Leonardo DiCaprio version of the same play (in which Sean Gunn's character was played by Scream's Jamie Kennedy). Gunn's first screenplay for Troma was the schlocky gross-out studio's unique take on England's greatest literary icon and he brought along for the ride his actor brother Sean (these days best known as Guardians' Ravager second-in-command Kraglin, as well as the on-set performance capture actor for Rocket Raccoon and, briefly, Thanos).
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