Tromeo and juliet release
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Much of Tromeo & Juliet seems conceived as a game of how many bad taste variations on the play the film can conduct – thus the Montagues and Capulets become former partners in the porn industry Juliet and the Nurse do lesbian scenes together Romeo whacks off to adult cd-roms with titles that are bad taste Shakespeare puns like As You Lick It and Much Ado About Humping the priest sympathises with Romeo and Juliet’s frustrated romantic woes, whereupon the film cuts to daydreams of him frolicking with young boys and so on. With Tromeo & Juliet, the basic gag – a bad taste rendition of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – comes completely upfront and is all there is to the film. Surprisingly enough, it even received coverage in some serious film magazines at the time. Tromeo & Juliet was their biggest budgeted film up to that point and one of the few Troma films to ever get a cinematic release. Romeo +& Juliet provided them with the opportunity to make the perfect punning title on their company name and launch into the 1990s Shakespearean cinematic vogue with gusto. Under their Troma Films banner, Kaufman and Herz have either made or distributed such masterpieces of good taste as The Toxic Avenger (1984), Class of Nuke ‘Em High (1986), Surf Nazis Must Die (1987), Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator (1989), Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1991), A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (1990), Pterodactyl Woman in Beverly Hills (1994), Teenage Catgirls in Heat (1997) and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) – all actual titles. Baz Luhrman’s hit teen updating of Shakespeare in Romeo +& Juliet (1996) proved to be a heaven-sent opportunity for filmmakers/distributors Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz.