Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss is a 2006 animated fantasy film about two star-crossed seals from warring families that fall in love against their parents' wishes. It loosely follows the traditional play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare and was released in Europe on July 22, 2006 and on October 27, 2006 in United States. The film was written, animated, and directed entirely by one person, former Disney animator Phil Nibbelink. The film took 4½ years to make and required 112,000 frames, which were drawn by Nibbelink on a Wacom tablet directly into Flash 4, in combination... with Moho. The film begins with the warring Capulets and Montagues, portrayed as white and brown colored sea lions respectively. Their feud is watched sadly by Capulet's only daughter, Juliet. A fight on the shore is ended when the Prince, a large and monstrous elephant seal, appears and warns the two groups that should there be any more disturbance, the seal who caused it shall be exiled to Shark Island, a fin shaped rock where a shark lives. Romeo, Montague's only son, is depressed, wishing to fall in love with someone.
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