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Title: ditch the hype and watch the movie
Review: Once you strip away the manic video montage of Verona Beach, Baz Luhrman's precocious musical tendancies, the over-wrought drama of the secondary characters, you are a left with perhaps the purest telling of this famous tragedy. The often bland Leonardo DiCaprio and the often brilliant Claire Dane meld perfectly in to their respective roles as Romeo and Juliet. All the innocence, the wonderment, the naivete, and the wreckless, unbridalled passion is captured equisitely in this movie. Forget the irreverence, forget the baudy, tacky colors, this is Romeo and Juliet as it was meant to be told.
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