Thursday, January 28, 2010

When in Rome


In no way is Kristen Bell a movie star worthy of a lead role even in second rate crap like When In Rome. Bell, while attending a wedding in Rome, awakens an ancient curse - whoever takes coins from a fountain has the heart of the original bearer of said coins.
Imagine my chagrin when to the right and left of me were couples holding hands and actually lapping up the spoonfuls of sugar being dished out by When In Rome.This film is worse than Did You Hear What Happened to the Morgans?, at least Hugh Grant has a schtick. Another recent romcom disaster Leap Year is like a Preston Sturges classic compared to When In Rome. Some of the scenes are supposed to occur at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. Another film last year, The International, also took place at the Guggenheim and built a replica of the inside at a studio in Germany. That factoid is more interesting than anything that happens in When In Rome.
Jon Heder plays one of the guys who is stalking Bell and he mimics a Criss Angel type magician, and his assistant is Efren Ramirez (Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite). The filmmakers keep cutting to Efren, as if to say get it, get it? These two guys were in Napoleon Dynamite, which was actually a very decent movie, and we want you to associate that with this loser of a film. Danny Devito also has a small role and to add insult to injury he mugs it up with the rest of the cast.
Notice how When In Rome, a Disney film, plays like a 20th Century Fox romcom, and meanwhile the Fox's recent The Tooth Fairy plays like a Disney film. Don't set your standards high if you choose to see When In Rome.

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