Line #24 WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss


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3	''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''...[[RecycledInSpace with]] [[AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation sea lions.]]
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5	The story follows, of course, Romeo and Juliet, two StarCrossedLovers who decide to marry in order to be together and free Juliet from an arranged marriage with an elephant seal. [[ForegoneConclusion Of course, things don't go well.]]
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7	Former Creator/{{Disney}} animator Creator/PhilNibbelink created the entire film by drawing directly into Flash 4 on his Wacom tablet, over a period of 4 years.
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9	This movie was distributed by Creator/IndicanPictures and released on October 2006, grossing a total of $463,002.
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11	Reviewed [[https://madnessmonster.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/romeo-and-juliet-sealed/ here]] and also by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHCxPAviGkc Bobsheaux.]]
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13	!!Provides examples of:
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15	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Prince to Juliet. Prince thinks he's a total stud, but he's an overweight, grotesque elephant seal with bad breath and a cruel, selfish personality. It doesn't help that he's multiple times Juliet's size.
16	* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: Being a LighterAndSofter adaptation, Romeo and Juliet, as well as Mercutio, all survive in the ending. [[spoiler:The Prince also survives the film, and as he is a CompositeCharacter, it could be seen as sparing Tybalt and Paris (two of the three characters he's derived from).]]
17	* AdaptationalVillainy: Prince is considerably worse than ''all'' the characters he's made up of. Prince Escalus is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure whose antagonism comes from his frustration with Romeo and Juliet's FeudingFamilies, and his order that Romeo be banished was an act of mercy, since the alternative was executing him. While Paris' exact characterization depends on the production, he seems to genuinely care about Juliet, courts her in the time period's appropriate manner by asking her father for her hand, and only attacks Romeo because he thinks he's there to vandalize Juliet's grave. Even Tybalt, despite being the closest thing the play had to an antagonist, is more likeable than Prince, since he never tried to force anybody to marry him.
18	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: ''Everyone'' is against Romeo and Juliet's love--even ''sea animals.''
19	* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Prince, an elephant seal, is yellowish-green, while real elephant seals are gray or brown. [[spoiler: The female elephant seal who becomes Prince's girlfriend at the end of the film is pink]].
20	* AnimalGenderBender: [[spoiler:The last-minute love interest for Prince]] is supposedly a female elephant seal, but its size and nose are those of a male.
21	* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation
22	* ArtisticLicenceBiology: [[spoiler:The female elephant seal at the end looks nothing like an [[http://www.theanimalfiles.com/images/northern_elephant_seal_1.jpg actual female elephant seal.]]]]
23	** All the seal characters are shown able to run around with both their front and hind flippers: something only ''eared seals'' such as sea lions can do. Elephant seals, as well as other earless seals, move instead by inchworming or flopping their way along.
24	** Elephant seals, while carnivorous, do not eat other seals or sea lions.
25	** Romeo and Juliet dance in the Titanic...which is over twelve thousand feet underwater, far deeper than any seal,[[note]]The elephant seal holds the record at five thousand.[[/note]] or for that matter any mammal ''period'' can dive.[[note]]The record holder is the Cuvier's Beaked Whale, and even it can't quite make ten thousand.[[/note]] Not to mention that they are shown to be able to [[SuperNotDrowningSkills breathe underwater]] despite being mammals.
26	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Romeo and his friends attempt to disguise themselves as white seals by rolling themselves in snow. And it somehow works ''underwater''.
27	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Romeo and Juliet visiting the Titanic, which is located in the Atlantic Ocean, despite the main species featured in the film (sea lion, elephant seal, and sea otter) belonging to the ''Pacific'' Ocean.
28	* BullyingADragon: Mercutio hurls various insulting jokes at the Prince, a [[MonstrousSeal gigantic and ferocious elephant seal]], [[spoiler: who eventually chases him over a cliff]].
29	* CanonForeigner: Kissy the kissing fish is not directly based on any character from the original play.
30	* CarnivoreConfusion: The aforementioned Kissy, friend to the seals. Say, what's a seal's main source of food again?
31	* ColorCodedCharacters: The Montagues are colored brown, the Capulets are pure white, the Prince is greenish grey and Kissy is orange.
32	* CompositeCharacter: Prince is an amalgam of Prince Escalus (his title and position of authority), Juliet's cousin Tybalt (the most antagonistic character present who is responsible for killing Mercutio, except [[DisneyDeath not really in this case]]), and Count Paris (one of the Prince's relatives who wanted to marry Juliet).
33	* CreatorCameo: Not only does Phil Nibbelink voice the Prince, but Kissy is voiced by Nibbelink's daughter.
34	* DamselInDistress: Juliet at one point is bound and gagged by an octopus. It gets worse for her in the film's climax.
35	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Romeo, Juliet, and Mercutio.]] But really, since this is a kiddie version, do we really need to spoiler-tag this?
36	* DomesticOnlyCartoon: Phil Nibbelink animated the film himself.
37	* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:Played straight]]. By the end of the film, [[spoiler:nobody dies in the end unlike the Shakespearean play]].
38	* TheEvilPrince: Admittedly, he's more [[FatIdiot stupid]] than evil, though he does show a tendency to try and eat those who anger him.
39	* EvilSmellsBad: PlayedForLaughs. Prince has bad breath. It is sometimes depicted as a green gas, and it's one of the many things that makes him an AbhorrentAdmirer.
40	* FatBastard: Prince. Justified, since elephant seals are well-known for their bulk.
41	* GetARoom: Said by Friar Lawrence and later Mercutio when Romeo and Juliet start kissing passionately:
42	--> '''Friar Lawrence''': [[DeadpanSnarker You two can't wait until after the wedding?]]
43	--> '''Mercutio''': Come on! Will youse two get a cave!
44	* ImprovisedWeapon: Mercutio uses an octopus and a lobster as weapons during the opening brawl.
45	* InterspeciesRomance: The Montagues are California sea lions, the Capulets Stellar sea lions. The two belong to different genera.
46	* LighterAndSofter: Compared with Creator/WilliamShakespeare's original play. See SparedByTheAdaptation below.
47	* LoveAtFirstSight: Romeo and Juliet, of course. [[spoiler: Also the Prince and his mate at the end]].
48	* MisplacedWildlife: The movie takes place in the North Atlantic, as can be seen by characters visiting the wreck of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic''; but sea lions, elephant seals, and sea otters do not live there.
49	* MonstrousSeal: Prince is a gigantic elephant seal who terrorizes the other sea lions on the beach, and even threatens to eat Romeo at one point.
50	* MoodWhiplash:
51	** The scene of Romeo seeing Julia dead, surrounded by her mourning family is followed by the comical chase scene between the Friar and Sharky, in which the Friar sings a GratuitousRap number.
52	** Mercutio arrives at the wedding-turned-tragedy surfing a wave and cracking jokes despite everyone looking sad before finally seeing Romeo and Juliet lying lifeless and commenting: "Uuuuh, this party looks DEAD!"
53	* OhCrapSmile: Both Mercutio and Benvolio do this upon seeing three more Capulet seals with the seal that was originally chasing Benvolio.
54	* PaleFemalesDarkMales: Zig-zagged. Romeo is a lot darker than Juliet, but that's due to them being from different families. Juliet's male relatives are just as light as her.
55	* PietaPlagiarism: When the Friar shows up to the wedding carrying the seemingly dead Juliet.
56	* PunnyName: Kissy, the kissing fish.
57	** Punny Title, too: ''Seal''ed With A Kiss.
58	* RecycledInSpace: ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' [-WITH SEA LIONS!-]
59	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Both played straight and [[UnrelatedInTheAdaptation inverted]]. Mercutio was related to the prince in the original play, but he isn't here. On the other hand, he also becomes a Montague in this adaptation.
60	* ReusedCharacterDesign: WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} pointed out that Friar Lawrence the otter looks nearly identical to [[WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone Merlin in squirrel form]].
61	-->'''Bobsheaux:''' Come on, movie, your character designs may have been a little creepy, but you shouldn't have to rip Disney off!
62	* SapientEatSapient: Prince has no qualms about eating seals - the same species he's about to ''marry''.
63	* ShipperOnDeck: Kissy thinks Romeo and Juliet are cute together and is one of the few characters who support the relationship. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, he finds a better love interest for Prince and thinks they're also cute together, despite both having bad breath]].
64	* ShoutOut:
65	** Kissy shows the Friar his way to safety from Sharky after telling him "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Come with me if you want to live!]]"
66	** Practically half the things Mercutio says are lines from other Shakespeare works.
67	* SparedByTheAdaptation: Contrary to the classic story, none of the characters die.
68	* StarCrossedLovers: Averted. Despite being explicitly described as such early in the film, [[LighterAndSofter this adaptation]] has Romeo and Juliet be together in the end.
69	* SweetSeal: Romeo and Juliet are reimagined in this film as adorable young sea lions.
70	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Prince [[spoiler: gets with a female elephant seal at the end of the movie. You can tell she’s a female elephant seal because she has eyelashes, lipstick, a bustline, and a pink coloration.]]
71	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Benvolio mutters "We're gonna die" when Mercutio reveals his plan to crash the Capulet's party.
72	* ThreateningShark: The SharkFinOfDoom-shaped Shark Island is called like this because its waters are haunted by a large hungry shark named [[StockAnimalName Sharky]], who has an extended chase scene with the Friar.
73	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Both trailers give away the ending... but then again, it shouldn't be a surprise, should it?
74	* TyingUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:After Romeo and Juliet's love is accepted, Prince quickly marries another elephant seal.]]
75	* VillainSong: Prince has "Ooh, Baby, Baby," about how attractive he thinks he is.
76	* WeWillNotUseStageMakeupInTheFuture: Averted. Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio sneak into a Capulet party by covering themselves in white sand.
77	* WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis: Mercutio tries this on a Capulet... and quickly sees she has bad teeth.

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