Letters To Juliet (2010– 105 mins)  Amanda Seyfried

   Letters is a pretty typical rom-com. Girl with fiance’ meets guy who isn’t great at first, but turns out to be the man of her dreams, fiance’ is not the worst guy in the world but doesn’t pay enough attention to her, girl and dreamy guy have a moment but girl goes back to states with fiance’ and realizes she loves dreamy guy, girl goes back to see dreamy guy and they work it all out in lovey sense and live happily ever after. If I just ruined the movie for you then, you really haven’t seen any romantic comedy in the last 20 years. Don’t worry tho the movie is still charming and rosey and enjoyable for chicks to watch so theywill love it. I can’t really say it’s terribly great for guys but you could do a lot worse. Just make sure you take some trips to the kitchen to re-fresh her drink so it might go a little quicker then the 106 mins it’s at.

    Ok so obviously there is a little more to the plot and here we go… Seyfried plays Sophie, a fact-checker from the states who goes on a pre-honeymoon with her fiance’ (a budding resteraunteur) to Verona. While in Verona, Sophie discovers the “Letters to Juliet” that people come from all over the world to leave in the romantic place for answers. She finds one which is unanswered and answers it. Upon meeting the elderlly woman from the letter, the duo and the woman’s grandson depart on a voyage, to find the lady’s lost love.

   Again straightforward predictable lovey stuff but contrary to what I thought it wasn’t half bad. Seifried has those eyes that draw you in when she smiles and gets you to like her. This is also bringing me back to a point I made a few weeks ago about rom-coms. I would much rather see the woman be single, or have an ass of a boyfriend/fiance’. Here we have what I don’t like to see in movies, the fiance’ who isn’t bad, he’s not a druggie, he’s not an abuser, his only crime is having a busy job and a fiance who wants to follow silly dreams and fairy tales. This poor guy who obviously loves his fiance’ and works hard as hell to start a bustling business to provide for them just gets shit on by this girl. I tend to loathe these type of story archs. Sure we have to get the girl to fall in love with the dreamy Englishman but they could have thought of something better for the fiance’ arch. Why not have her overseas for a job for her employer or coming off of a relationship. Writers should get a bit more creative then this.

Verdict—> Chicks will love this movie. It’ happy and predictable to a tee but women will still love the story and the dreamy Britt. Guys get it for a date night if you want to impress your woman but take some no-doze first. Good brownie points movie.

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