Editing Tromeo and Juliet (section)

==Reception==
In ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Stephen Holden]] said "''Tromeo & Juliet'' is to Hollywood [[B movie|B-movies]] what [[Mad (magazine)|Mad magazine]] is to comic books. Although many times more explicit than what Hollywood is permitted to show, there is something goofily exhilarating in the spectacle of all the staple images of teen-age sex and [[Slasher film|slasher movies]] transformed into [[farce]]."<ref name="NYTreview">{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=Where Art Thou, Decorum? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/28/movies/where-art-thou-decorum.html |access-date=3 May 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=February 28, 1997 |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324175938/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/28/movies/where-art-thou-decorum.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In a review for Entertainment Weekly, J.R. Taylor gave the film a grade of B and wrote, "While this comedy about star-crossed idiots (Jane Jensen and Will Keenan) has all the kinky sex and ultraviolence expected of the Troma studio, which built its reputation on chimichangas like The Toxic Avenger, Shakespeare’s dewy tragedy still glistens amid the deep-fried glop. Which is all the more incredible considering that Tromeo & Juliet changes the Bard’s ending and throws out most of his words. Some stories just adapt more readily than others."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Taylor |first1=J.R. |title=Tromeo & Juliet |url=https://ew.com/article/1997/06/06/tromeo-juliet-2/ |access-date=3 May 2023 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=June 6, 1997 |archive-date=May 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503122937/https://ew.com/article/1997/06/06/tromeo-juliet-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Daniel Rosenthal described ''Tromeo and Juliet'' as "the [[nadir]] of screen Shakespeare...[it] takes every major character and incident from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' and systematically drains them of humanity in a tedious, appallingly acted feast of mutilation and softcore sex."<ref>{{cite book|last=Rosenthal |first=Daniel |title=BFI Screen Guides: 100 Shakespeare Films |publisher=British Film Institute |location=London |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-84457-170-3 |page=221}}</ref> Tony Howard summarized it as a film "in which Juliet and the Nurse have lesbian sex, Romeo masturbates, various body parts are removed, the feud is between rival porn czars and incest rules".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Howard |first1=Tony |chapter=Shakespeare's Cinematic Offshoots in |editor-last=Shaughnessy |editor-first=Robert |title=The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-521-60580-9 |page=298}}</ref>