Under the bold title Gnomeo and Juliet, Kelly Asbury ( Shrek 2) chose to adapt the tragedy of William Shakespeare , you guessed it the original title, by transposing his legendary love story in English gardens, where the heroes are garden gnomes. It took some courage and a certain madness to make an animation of a myth to images, but changing the Capulets and the Montagues in porcelain figures inexpressive is practically heresy.
First animated film produced by Touchstone, the film still belongs to the house that Disney is no longer a wacky project. Galvanized by his experience on the Lion King, Elton John the brave is even credited in the credits of the dual role of executive producer and composer of the soundtrack. How to add flavor to a legendary drama without it lends itself to ridicule? First, raise the flag in a preamble in which a garden gnome warns of lack of originality of the story already seen a hundred times but we promise that this time it will be different. Not really. Taking the concept of Toy Story who imagines a life independent of the toy away from the eyes of man, Kelly Asbury animates his garden gnomes from a life of its own fueled by the rivalry between neighbors. At night, clandestine missions are organized to go to rot the garden next door and sometimes organized racing lawnmower to emphasize the supremacy of one family to another. In the midst of this hatred secular Gnomeo Juliet falls madly in love he meets in a vacant lot ... The war is obviously going rage as to prevent the idyll before rewriting the history of that dear William, also took party in the heart of the plot (in the form of a statue) as to justify it.
visual level, it's pretty ugly. The staging is making little inventiveness and originality in comparison to what we recently have seen in animated films. The characters are hollow except the dwarf string that is finally more in line with the principle of this ersatz cartoon relatively common. It is not far from thinking that this cartoon in brilliant relief (China properly cleaned) has won a monopoly on bad taste and is not ready to let go. Well obviously it is for children, yet he has no argument for him that can feed the imagination of younger and it is mostly devoid of humor. Reinvest as much in the classics that inspired Asbury and his team (Toy Story and Up to the scene of the house neglected), as they have, despite their intention daring, surfed the wave of a sterile modernity, that of computer animation, stories and tales diverted ridiculed and infinite scam 3D. Released in France and Belgium: 16/02/2011
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