WITH its stunning architecture, seductive cuisine and impossibly handsome and sharp-dressed residents, Rome is a popular destination for honeymoons and loved-up getaways.
The cobbled streets and piazzas also provide a majestic setting for Mark Steven Johnson's hapless romantic comedy.
ghd hair straightenersBut the picture-postcard locations are far more inspiring than the misfiring script, which creates a fictional fountain where lovelorn tourists toss coins and silently wish for romance.
This clumsy dramatic device initiates a preposterous battle of wits between one young woman and five potential suitors, none of whom are a suitable match.
Bally Handags ReplicaBeth (Kristen Bell) is a curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She is desperate to impress her boss, Celeste (Anjelica Huston), who has tailored her brusque management style on Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada.
Celeste puts Beth in charge of the annual Circle Of Gold Gala with a stark warning that should anything go wrong, it will be the end of a burgeoning career.
In the middle of preparations, Beth travels to Rome to support her younger sister, Joan (Alexis Dziena), who is marrying an Italian stallion (Luca Calvani).
The curator is instantly attracted to accident-prone sports writer Nick (Josh Duhamel), only to see the hunk kissing another woman.
Feeling depressed, Beth wades into the famed Fountain Of Love and drunkenly snatches up a handful of coins and a poker chip.
As if by magic, the men who threw the tokens into the fountain all fall under Beth's spell.
To Beth's delight, Nick is one of her potential paramours but so too are artist Antonio (Will Arnett), egotistical model Gale (Dax Shepard), street magician Lance (Jon Heder) and businessman Al (Danny DeVito).
When In Rome makes poor use of a talented cast. We feel embarrassed for Arnett, De Vito and co.
cheap lace front wigsA dance sequence over the end credits seems designed to convince us that the cast had a hoot making the film.
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