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  • Chapter 7 - Pixarfication, Comedy and Earning the Happy Ending in Gnomeo & Juliet

  • from Part II - Extending Genre
  • Edited by Victoria Bladen, University of Queensland, Sarah Hatchuel, University Paul-Valéry Montpellier, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, University Paul-Valéry Montpellier
  • Book:
    Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
    Published online:
    10 October 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 110-124

  • Summary

    This chapter presents an academic re-assessment of Gnomeo & Juliet, acknowledging its status as a Shakespearean adaptation for young children whilst also moving beyond this superficial evaluation. Whilst Asbury has his version of Shakespeare’s ‘star-cross’d lovers’ survive and unite their rival factions – a choice which clearly makes the story more palatable for children – the film earns this happy ending. It does so both through its echoes of and engagement with Shakespearean comedy (particularly A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and through its intertextuality with cinematic history, British culture and heritage and the Shakespearean canon. Asbury astutely makes his film appeal equally to three distinct audiences: young children, adults and Shakespeare aficionados – emulating the critically and commercially successful approach of Pixar Animation Studios in creating animated cinema which simultaneously connects authentically with multiple discrete demographics.