All spoilers will be unmarked ahead. You Have Been Warned!
- Let's all be honest here: the moment in the film's opening minutes where Lord Montague shouts "Put out thy sword!", is made hilarious by the camera immediately zooming in on the word "SWORD" engraved on the pistol's slide. Makes more sense given its modern spin... and ridiculous at the same time.
- The film manages to combine Have a Gay Old Time, Parenthetical Swearing and This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! in one sentence just by putting a minor bit of emphasis on the end of Shakespeare's original line:"Bring me my longsword, ho!"
- And again:Mercutio: Make it a word, and... a blow.
Tybalt: You shall find me apt enough for that, sir. And you will give me occasion.
Mercutio: (walking away suggestively) Could you not take some occasion without giving? - Father Lawrence has a moment of this too:Father Lawrence: Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their (momentary suggestive pause) eyes.
- And again:
- Sampson being hit on the head by a handbag-wielding woman during the gas station scene.
- All of the cute little allusions to Shakespeare's lines dotted here and there as ad slogans. The best one: "I'll send it posthaste!" In the movie, "Post-Haste" is a courier service, like FedEx (note the typeface).
- Another is Shylock Bank.
- "JUUUUUUUUUUUUULIEEEEEEET!"
- The Montague boys leering and shouting "I am a pretty piece of flesh"... at a group of nuns guarding a group of schoolgirls.
- The cartoon sound effects used during the duels.
- There's a scene completely unrelated to the original play where Romeo goes to the party, and is so bewildered by what he sees that he thinks it must be the drugs Mercutio gave him.
