Welcome to mythical Verona Beach, where the gangs fire on each other, and soldiers in choppers fire on them. No dialogue, just gunshots, as two gang families - the Montagues and the Capulets (each has its name in lights on the roof of a high-rise) - go to war. It’s a good thing that Shakespeare gets his name in the title, or you might mistake the opening scenes for Quentin Tarantino’s Romeo and Juliet. These babes from the TV woods - he started in Growing Pains she emerged in My So–Called Life - fill their classic roles with vital passion, speak the Elizabethan verse with unforced grace, find the spirited comedy of the play without losing its tragic fervor and keep their balance when the audacious Australian director Baz Luhrmann ( Strictly Ballroom) hurls them into a whirlwind of hardball action, rowdy humor and rapturous romance. The laughter comes from delight and awe at how well DiCaprio and Danes pull off the trick. You almost laugh watching them put a hip, hotblooded spin on the Bard’s star-crossed lovers. Leonardo Dicaprio is 21, Claire Danes is 17, and, yes, class, they do get naked in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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