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Gnomeo & Juliet Movie Review And Trailer

Valentine’s day weekend your grizzled, hard and anti-relationship movie critic decided to check out a romantic movie at the local Cineplex. Yes, it was a cartoon, but it was a sweet and romantic movie none the less; Gnomeo and Juliet from Touchstone Pictures. Gnomeo and Juliet tells the classic William Shakespeare tale of two star crossed lovers from rival houses (Gnomeo from the Blue house of yard Gnomes and Juliet from the Red). Besides being sweet and romantic, the G-Rated animated film is very funny. James McAvoy is the voice of Gnomeo and Emily Blunt is Juliet. The movie also has some unexpected voices in the cast like Ozzy Osborne as a lawn deer and Hulk Hogan as the TV commercial voice of a monster lawnmower called the “Terrafirminator”.

The yard gnomes race around the alley in lawnmowers and wage war against each other and during it all Gnomeo and Juliet find each other and try to overcome the obstacles that threaten to keep them apart. It’s very “little girl friendly” but I wouldn’t have a problem taking my grandson to see the movie because Gnomeo was a hardcore, gangster gnome. He was very roguish and tough but wasn’t afraid to show his softer side to find love (Guys, perhaps a lesson a few of us could learn). The movie features music from Elton John, including a new duet with Lady Gaga, and I have to mention the film’s director, Kelly Asbury. He’s from my hometown (Beaumont, TX) and we went to the same college (Lamar University). One of his previous projects was Shrek 2 and he does an excellent job of bringing the gnomes to life on the big screen in Gnomeo and Juliet.

Check These Out: Four New Stills from Chris Nolan’s Inception

We don’t know when the next trailer for Chris Nolan’s Inception will be arriving (I’m guessing sometime early this summer?), so to hold you over, we’re featuring these four new photos that have popped up various places over the last few days. SlashFilm culled them all together and cleaned them up a bit, so I owe them some thanks. Coincidentally we last featured four new photos from Inception just last week, so it looks like they keep hitting in batches of four. Seen in these photos are Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur, and Ellen Page as Ariadne. I think a few of them were found in the Mind Crime viral game.

If you haven’t seen them, watch the first teaser trailer and second teaser trailer for Inception at those links. We’ll definitely let you know whenever any trailers show up online for Inception, so stay tuned right here!

Inception is both written and directed by acclaimed Oscar nominated British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. Nolan previously co-wrote the scripts for Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige, and The Dark Knight with his brother Jonathan Nolan. Warner Bros is bringing Inception to theaters starting on July 16th this summer. See you all in theaters!

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