Rating: PG
Movie Release Date: May 13, 2010 (Australia) / May 14, 2010 (USA)
DVD Release Date: TBD
Plot 411: On a pre-wedding trip to Italy, Sophie discovers a 50-year-old letter to Juliet and replies to the author.
Review: Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) and her fiance Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal) take a vacation to Verona in place of a formal honeymoon because of Victor's upcoming restaurant opening. However, once in Italy, Victor spends most of his time meeting with vendors rather than with Sophie. While sightseeing on her own Sophie finds the famous home of Juliet Capulet, which has turned into a shrine for women who are having problems in love. While writing her own letter, Sophie witnesses a woman pulling off all the letters. She follows the woman and learns that four women serve as Juliet's secretaries. As she assists them the following day, Sophie uncovers a 50-year-old letter that has gone unanswered. She writes to Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) and a few days later is traveling with Claire and her grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan) to find Claire's Italian lost love. The amazing Italian countryside of Sienna was a picture-perfect sight and its sun-drenched vineyards were amazing. The idea of a woman returning to the place of her youth to find and reconnect with a 50-year-old lost love is indeniably romantic. Seyfried is cute (her enormous blue eyes didn't seem as enormously distracting as they were in other films) and likable as Sophie (yes, it's the same character name she had in Mamma Mia!), but somehow this movie didn't live up to all the hype. Bernal and Egan were somewhat unlikeable in their own ways. While I thought the Claire storyline was moving, the Sophie/Victor/Charlie plotline seemed forced. The Charlie character's arc is definitely more like a spike with no warning or any indication of his motive for change. Everything was just too predictable, and what's worse is that the trailer reveals the entire movie.
Watch It: If you're a romantic at heart.
Skip It: If you've already watched the trailer. There's no need to spend your $10 after that.
Movie Release Date: May 13, 2010 (Australia) / May 14, 2010 (USA)
DVD Release Date: TBD
Plot 411: On a pre-wedding trip to Italy, Sophie discovers a 50-year-old letter to Juliet and replies to the author.
Review: Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) and her fiance Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal) take a vacation to Verona in place of a formal honeymoon because of Victor's upcoming restaurant opening. However, once in Italy, Victor spends most of his time meeting with vendors rather than with Sophie. While sightseeing on her own Sophie finds the famous home of Juliet Capulet, which has turned into a shrine for women who are having problems in love. While writing her own letter, Sophie witnesses a woman pulling off all the letters. She follows the woman and learns that four women serve as Juliet's secretaries. As she assists them the following day, Sophie uncovers a 50-year-old letter that has gone unanswered. She writes to Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) and a few days later is traveling with Claire and her grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan) to find Claire's Italian lost love. The amazing Italian countryside of Sienna was a picture-perfect sight and its sun-drenched vineyards were amazing. The idea of a woman returning to the place of her youth to find and reconnect with a 50-year-old lost love is indeniably romantic. Seyfried is cute (her enormous blue eyes didn't seem as enormously distracting as they were in other films) and likable as Sophie (yes, it's the same character name she had in Mamma Mia!), but somehow this movie didn't live up to all the hype. Bernal and Egan were somewhat unlikeable in their own ways. While I thought the Claire storyline was moving, the Sophie/Victor/Charlie plotline seemed forced. The Charlie character's arc is definitely more like a spike with no warning or any indication of his motive for change. Everything was just too predictable, and what's worse is that the trailer reveals the entire movie.
Watch It: If you're a romantic at heart.
Skip It: If you've already watched the trailer. There's no need to spend your $10 after that.
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