In the mid-1990s, Leonardo DiCaprio was a heartthrob adored by millions of adolescent and young girls around the world. This was even before Titanic destroyed the box office, because every girl wanted to be the Juliet to DiCaprio's Romeo from Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.

Luhrmann's retelling of the famous tragedy takes place in the modern urban streets of California - Verona Beach, to be exact - where the kids are driving in multi-coloured convertibles and twirling guns with the kind of ease one would carry around their cellular phones. The guys wore Hawaiian shirts and jeans; the girls T-shirts and skirts, and there they were, spewing some of Shakespeare's most famous middle-English lines through their valley-girl accents.

Many classics have been recreated to fit the modern era, but the most successful ones generally update the dialogue as well as the setting. In Romeo + Juliet, the young actors looked and sounded ridiculous speaking Shakespeare's text while heading to the gas station or having a huge costume-themed house party. However, despite the lack of authenticity, it can't be denied that DiCaprio and Claire Danes, who played the ill-fated Juliet, had remarkable on-screen chemistry. For characters who were supposed to be around 15-16 years old, you couldn't help but to root for their never-ending love, even though everyone knew the outcome. DiCaprio's Romeo was romantic, charming, funny, and charismatic, and Danes' Juliet was vivacious, clever, and sweet to the bone. Little girls couldn't help but to love them. This hasn't changed in the Blu-ray format.

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is out now on Blu-ray and can be purchased on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.