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Engaged Sophie (Amanda Seyfriend) starts to fall for British Charlie (Christopher Egan) in the romance “Letters to Juliet.” |
If you like the generic pop-tune montage that opens “Letters to Juliet,” you’ll love the second one 30 minutes later.
And the third 36 minutes later.
And the fourth 44 minutes later.
And the fifth 70 minutes later.
And the sixth 75 minutes later.
Gary Winick’s romantically listless “Letters to Juliet” squanders an utterly winsome cast in a prefab plot so predictable and gooey that your shoes might just stick to the theater floor.
The adorable Amanda Seyfried plays Sophie, a fact-checker for New Yorker magazine, edited by a curt Oliver Platt. Sophie embarks on a “pre-wedding honeymoon” to Italy with her beau, Spanish chef Victor (the cute and charming Gael Garcia Bernal).
Instantly, we can tell: He’s all wrong for her.
Victor is about to open his own New York restaurant. He spends his time in Italy not with the lovely Sophie, but with the suppliers who will furnish the food and wine for his business. Victor can’t even get through a conversation with Sophie without taking an urgent phone call.
So, “Letters to Juliet” becomes another one of those rom-coms where everyone but the heroine knows that her current relationship is doomed the moment that she meets the next available hunky guy. (Read more…)