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Would have been better to have just used some classical music or had nothing at all in many scenes. It actually interferes with the dialog in some parts.

#Shakespeare in love common sense media movie

The tacky and overblown musical score is all wrong especially compared to the memorable and famous 68 movie score. Paul Giamatti should have moderated his accent a bit to sound vaguely European.

Mercutio is okay but Tybalt is overacted by Ed Westwick who played it like a cross between Chuck Bass and a bull in a ring, flared nostrils and all. Natascha McElhone looks more like Romeo than Juliet so don't know why she was playing Juliet's mother. As far as supporting cast is concerned, Damian Lewis as Juliet's father acts well but too Royal Shakespeare Company for the rest of the cast - like he dropped in from the theater. Too bad Lily Collins dropped out - she would have been much better. There isn't much chemistry between the two. He looks older than he is so it seemed a bit predatory. Douglas Booth as Romeo is more beautiful than Hailee. She looks younger than her age - more tween than teen and her looks aren't special enough. She just didn't act like she was passionately in love - not even puppy love. As Juliet, Hailee's isn't right for the part. This is a tale of a woefully miscast movie. No question that the 1968 version remains the best film adaptation ever made. What's worse,it also does not use the written dialogues of Shakespeare in it.Parts of it were only used.It only follows the plot of the play and the Verona setting.Nothing more.Too bad that people looking forward to this film felt cheated thus arising the controversy for false advertising.Or better yet,the film simply did not meet the standard for it lacks passion,romance,lyricism and eroticism expected from any Romeo And Juliet film.Truly disappointing. Too bad that the decent performances of the other stars or the so-called 'adults' such as Damian Lewis,Kodi Smit-McPhee,Ed Westwick,Stellan SkarsgГҐrd and Paul Giamatti are not and will never be enough to compensate for the poor performances of the lead stars. It was nothing to the performances of Whiting and Hussey. This 2013 film adaptation is definitely a poor version of the William Shakeaspere tragic play of romance.Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld,who stars as Romeo and Juliet respectively,simply lacks the passion,energy and realism as the star-crossed lovers of feuding Verona and Montague families. Watching this film only gives only provides me more reasons to love the 1968 Romeo And Juliet film that starred Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey.

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However it is all a bit wasted in a movie full of little annoying problems. There are some interesting actors at work here. He's very beautiful and very two dimensional. I couldn't stop noticing his tween dreamy idolization of the character. I kept looking at pretty boy Douglas Booth as Romeo. Although she doesn't impress in this, she wasn't the big problem for me. This would be a younger Juliet in the similar vain as Franco Zeffirelli's version. I was actually very fascinated with Hailee Steinfeld who did such a solid job in 'True Grit'. There is a musicality to Shakespeare's words which is mostly lost in this version. Julian Fellowes is trying to simplify the words to be understandable for the modern audience. I'm willing to buy into it if it's done well. It's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, only it's not really.