CINEMA

Gnomeo and Juliet

Directed by Kelly Asbury

Nationwide, cert G

Rating: ***

The latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has its least glamorous setting yet: the muddy world of garden gnomes.

The story unfolds in neighbouring suburban gardens where two rival gangs of gnomes, the blues and the reds, maintain a frenetic feud involving chaotic lawn mower races, the destruction of prize flowers, and rivals’ hats being knocked off.

When Juliet (voiced ...