Juliet & Romeo

2025

Drama / Musical / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 26% · 34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 445 445

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Director

Timothy Scott Bogart Photo
Timothy Scott Bogart

Top cast

Jason Isaacs Photo
Jason Isaacs as Lord Montague
Rebel Wilson Photo
Rebel Wilson as Lady Capulet
Dan Fogler Photo
Dan Fogler as Apothecary
Rupert Everett Photo
Rupert Everett as Lord Capulet
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1.11 GB
1280*536
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  es  fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 68
2.27 GB
1920*804
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  es  fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 42
2.04 GB
1920*804
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  es  fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 20
5.45 GB
3840*2160
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  es  fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MacroManatee 3 / 10

Ended up leaving the theater.

There are so, so many reasons this movie was a failure that to enumerate them would be an exercise in exhaustion. I think the most annoying part was also the most ridiculous: everyone talked in different accents, and sang in others. For example, Romeo and Juliet both use something like RP or a southern English accent, but Romeo's father uses a distinct Northern English brogue. Juliet's parents sound the same as her, for whatever reason. Other characters' accents are undeniably American, though we are supposed to believe they're all (or mostly) native residents of the same city. To confuse matters further, everyone sings in an American accent!As for the rest, the music was poorly written and just as poorly produced, the script (all modern English) was practically phoned in, and the cinematography was amateurish. The worst offense, however, was a complete disregard for key character moments and interactions that lovers of Shakespeare cherish from the original play. Phrases and lines from the source text are haphazardly re-contextualized-and delivered so carelessly-that they lose their original power, poetry, and philosophical punch. After close to an hour of watching this joke of a production, I decided to revoke the rest of the time I had originally entrusted to the film (during the apothecary's song, if that matters). Maybe that undercuts the validity of my review, but I don't care. Enduring the rest of that awful movie isn't worth bolstering the arguments of an online review that hardly anyone will read.In fairness, I liked the imagery of the musical scene where the main characters have parted ways from the church but are still together "in their hearts," or whatever, but ONLY on an aesthetic level, because everything else about that scene is creatively tragic.
Reviewed by avia1982 3 / 10

Movie Identity Crisis

This film is a bit all over the place and never quite hit on what I think it intended to.First, the cinematography is often jumbled and rushed. The angles are off and the lighting is awkward, many scenes leaving you feeling almost as if you're watching an older person play a first-person open-wolrld video game for the first time. Additionally, it appears that they have chosen to add cold air breath effects to almost every person speaking, even in daytime scenes. This became very distracting for me.The writing in the movie seemed way off. Many times the characters used Shakespearean speak for dialogue, then other times it was modern, felt like the writing of a high school play. Then all of the songs were lyrically written in completely different form of speaking than the way the characters normally spoke in dialogue.On the topic of the songs, they felt completely out of place from the rest of the movie. In many musicals, the songs fit in with the scenes and they feel connected, relevant, and as if it is a continuation of a scene, not a break from it. In Julie & Romeo, the songs feel like a break from the scenes. They feel very much like an odd music video in the middle of watching this movie. Many odd music videos. Every song sounds so musically busy and over-produced and it is very obvious the characters are lip-syncing.The only good parts about this film are the set and then some of the costumes (some costumes felt like costumes, maybe even from Spirit Halloween). Also the storyline, while different from the actual story of Romeo and Juliet, was overall fun and interesting. However, with all of the other poor choices and challenges the writers and director took with this movie, it left me really disliking the movie. It seemed like the film was majorly suffering from an identity crisis and didn't know if it should be a retelling of the original Shakespeare play, a musical in movie form, a musical in theatrical production form, a modern day love story, etc. Seems like they tried to include it all, jumble it together, and hoped for the best. This movie was a mess and I was counting down the time for it be over from the first song.For anyone reading this and then going to see the film, good luck. Hopefully you'll feel differently about the movie and actually enjoy it.
Reviewed by beckyrps1 3 / 10

Not sure if this should be encouraged

You'll either love or hate this movie, based on the reviews it's getting. It's only loosely based on Shakespeare's play so throw that expectation out. On the positive side, the production value is good and it has Derek Jacoby in a major role, a good sign. But you know it's sus when the writer, director, and producer are the same person (a Bogart) and another Bogart is an additional producer as well as responsible for writing all the songs, of which there were way too many and they sounded all the same. At one point one of the main characters was unconscious and I was thinking "well at least she won't sing now" but I was sadly disappointed. If you like a lot of pop songs mixed in with the plot, you might go for this. Personally I enjoyed a silent car ride home after the movie. Tip: Ask for a subtitle machine at the theater because otherwise you might not be able to catch all the dialogue.
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