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 ...

“Gnomeo and Juliet,” directed by Kelly Asbury, is an animated film based loosely on Shakespeare’s tale of forbidden love. Neighbor rivalry between Montague and Capulet residencies in Stratford-on-Avon ...

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 ...

This is not your garden variety, animated 3-D Shakespearean knock-off. “Gnomeo & Juliet” may sound like a cheesy kids' movie, but it quickly establishes itself as a delightful, clever, musical ...

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 ...