Recently, Elton John told Rolling Stone magazine that old pal Billy Joel needed some tough love. Joel, he declared, was drinking too much and wasting his life. He needed to "do something better" with ...

Need to amuse the kiddies while you recover from your Friday-night excesses? Gnomeo and Juliet is a remarkably pleasant film to watch with a hangover, featuring tons of Shakespearean in-jokes, garden ...

On our way to Gnomeo and Juliet, my friend Caitlin and I were fist-pumping to Journey. That’s how excited we were to see an animated retelling of one of our most beloved stories. Both of us are Ph.D.

Kelly Asbury, director of "Shrek 2" and "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," must have told the tale a hundred times by now, but reloads with plenty of enthusiasm anyway. "My producer, Baker Bloodworth ...

The title suggests a kooky Shakespeare variation. Add the design element of garden gnomes, a campy retro decision that strongly suggests pink flamingoes cannot be far behind. Throw in the fact that ...

With a myriad of exemplary feature animation films emerging in the last few years, the bar was set high for Gnomeo and Juliet. But instead, the cheesy pun for a title was backed up by an equally ...

“Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny …” And at about this point the gnome reciting the prologue to “Romeo and Juliet” ...

The most charming aspect of Gnomeo and Juliet is…who are we kidding, the entire film is delightful. Gnomeo and Juliet takes Shakespeare’s classic and turns it on its head. Romeo here is named Gnomeo ...

Juliet (voiced by Emily Blunt) boasts a pointy red hat and a cowlick. Her forbidden lover-boy in the neighboring yard is Gnomeo (James McAvoy), a cutie with a chinstrap beard who vaguely resembles ...

What’s in a name, after all? Would “Gnomeo & Juliet” — that’s right, “Gnomeo & Juliet” — be the surprise of the season if it had a title that wasn’t quite so silly? Or is the wackiness of the concept ...

Shakespeare with lawn ornaments turns out to be an unexpectedly winning proposition in "Gnomeo & Juliet." Set up at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2005 through Rocket Pictures, the imprint of exec ...