Of course, it just has to be a Rom-Com! Letters to Juliet, a truly awful film, forces watchers to go on a 'honey moon/ business trip' with a Blonde and a Hunk number 1 to Italy. The Italian fiancée (Hunk number 1) treats Blonde like crap (almost as crap as his acting!) He finds food and wine more important that his perfect mate so she ends up doing her own thing. She somehow finds a letter behind a brick in an ancient wall where women over the years have written letters to 'Juliet'. "I have to write back" she announces. This is when Hunk number two arrives on the scene (American oke trying to be British thus his accent sounded a bit South African at times) and for some reason decides to be even meaner to Blonde than Hunk number 1. Nobody knows why, he is just plain mean. Then we meet Hunk number 2's grandma. She is the lady who wrote to Julia all those years ago. They decided to go on a hunt for her long lost love. All the cliché things happen. The end.
The only person who deserves recognition for her effort is Vanessa Redgrave who plays the grandmother. Whilst I was watching I wondered why she decided to involve herself in such a vapid and predictable screenplay. Blonde is the chick who played the airhead from Mean Girls. That was where she belonged. In fact, didn't she win an award for that part? Anyway, I'm sure it was a money making creation over a work of art so I give it to them. I mean I bought into it! I went and bought a ticket! (Even if it cost me R30 at the local cinema where we have to specifically ask the women on duty to turn the sound up every time.)
I checked out a few critics on rotten tomatos and my fav critique is "The story is as straight and obvious as raw spaghetti."
Bottom line:
No wonder they decided to show it in the 'small cinema' and put a South African film 'Egoli' in the big one. In case u were wondering, I live in Knysna and we only have 2 screens at the movies, one biggie and one smallie :)
