I love the people who trash romantic comedies that deliver exactly what you expect a romantic comedy to deliver."When in Rome" is nothing more and nothing less than a cookie cutter chick flick about romance, finding love, a happy ending, with some jokes thrown in to make you laugh.I enjoyed the movie and for the fee of renting it on demand, felt it was well worth the 91 minutes of run time, not including previews of course.Please people, who doesn't think that Kristen Bell is cute and even my girlfriend perks up a little when Josh Duhamel comes on screen.Kristen Bell plays a working woman who finds her job much more rewarding than any relationship she can find.It doesn't mean she isn't sad nothing has worked out with the men in her life.It just means that she can feel rewarded standing on her own two feet.Hello, am I connecting with the female population yet?She is a lead curator at the Guggenheim museum and just when she concedes to living a life of solitaire, her sister decides to get married and things go a little haywire.So off to Rome she flies for a weekend of family hell.
While in the romantic city she picks a few coins out of a fountain and unknowingly captures the hearts of some lucky dudes who had previously dropped them in the mysterious fountain.While the magic is working its way towards insanity she meets Josh Duhamel who happens to actually like her.The two of them make a great pair.As corny as the scene is with breaking the vase and short circuiting the electricity, it actually made me laugh.Without giving too much away, the commercials do that all too well already, I will say that several scenes had me laughing pretty loud at times.It really was a funny movie, even if it was a little trite and predictable.
In my book Dax Shepard was absolutely hilarious with his washboard stomach.He spent most of the movie with his shirt off as he looked at himself almost as much as he sat admiring Kristen Bell.How this guy is not cast in more movies is beyond me, but we can continue to enjoy his work next season in Parenthood.
Anyway, I enjoyed the movie.If you go in expecting a nice romantic comedy with several funny scenes you will leave happy.It isn't anything ground breaking and there is no thought involved.It is simply 91 minutes of mindless entertainment where everything works out in the end.What more can you ask from a movie of this nature.In my book it delivered, so have a few laughs and move on to the next one.Hollywood has been making these since the moving picture was invented, and it will continue as long as people buy the tickets to see them.I for one think it was adequately worth the price.
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An ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of those who threw them in: a sausage magnate (Danny DeVito), a street magician (John Heder), an adoring painter (Will Arnet) and a self-admiring model (Dax Shepard). But when a charming reporter (Josh Duhamel) pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?
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