Real Teen Award
-Worst Movie Poster of 2010
-Worst Movie Poster of 2010
The Gist
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) goes to Italy with her fiance as a pre-wedding honeymoon. There, while her husband goes to various food vendors, she finds Juliet Capulet’s balcony, where hundreds of girls a day write letters to Juliet for love advice and tape them to the wall near her balcony. At the end of the day, Sophie is still there, composing her letter to Juliet, and she sees a woman come up to the wall and steadily take down all of the letters on the wall, putting them in the basket she carries with her. Not liking what she sees, Sophie follows the woman after she leaves and ends up finding the woman (and three others) in some sort of office area. After a confused Sophie asks who they are and why they took down all the letters, they tell her they are the Secretaries of Juliet, and they take all the letters and write back to them, giving the girls advice, as Juliet would do. Sophie is intrigued and the next day when they go to take down all the letters, she goes too, and discovers a letter that has been hidden in the wall for years. She read the letter and then decides that she must respond. A few days after she mails her response to the letter she found a man named Charlie (Christopher Egan) finds her and complains. The letter Sophie found was written by his grandmother, and she had taken Sophie’s advice and insisted on going to Italy to find her past love. Charlie was not pleased. He didn’t want to get his grandmother’s hopes up that they would find her old love, and he didn’t like the fact that she had an old love at all. He liked to think of his grandfather as her only love, and this whole mission of her’s makes him feel worthless and almost like a mistake. But when Sophie meets Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) - the woman who many years ago wrote the letter that Sophie responded to – they both realize that they have to at least try to find Claire’s past love. So the three of them – Claire, Charlie, and Sophie – go on a trip around Italy to find Claire’s love Lorenzo Bartolini.
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Rating: PG
I didn’t really have very high hopes for this movie. But when I went to see it in theaters I still tried to have an open-mind. Even though a few people had told me it was a really terrible movie. Well, I’m glad I went to see it. But not because it was good. It was actually pretty horrible. I’m not sure if I like reviewing bad movies or not… I’ll basically be saying the same thing over and over. Bad, bad, bad, bad. Let me first say something about the plot. Ick. That’s the only word that accurately describes it. Well, that and stupid. I thought it was sloppy and not well-thought-out at all. It was a romance with hardly any plot at all, actually. I don’t really have anything else to say to that. Moving on. Let me tell you now, this is not going to be a very long review. I can tell it’s going to be one of those short, sweet and to the point type of reviews. Anyway. The dialogue wasn’t very good either. I mean it wasn’t completely horrendous, but it wasn’t a great work of writing either. Very predictable. Just like this entire movie. TOO predictable. There are some movies that can get away with being a little predictable. This was not one of those movies. I could guess what they were going to say before they said it and I knew the ending before I even saw the second scene of the movie. So the script was too predictable and mediocre to leave any lasting impression on me. So I wouldn’t call that a failure or a success. I leave it in that awkward place in between that no one wants to be in. Now to critique the acting. Again, it was utterly average. Just so-so. Nothing to rave about. Christopher Egan – who played Charlie – was at times creepy, and Amanda Seyfried was not at all convincing in the love scenes. I found myself laughing at the absurdity of some of their portrayals. Other times they weren’t that bad though, so…I’m not sure what that means for them. I’ve gone over my main points. I should wrap up and state the grade I give it. But I won’t. Because another two things really bothered me. One: the movie trailer. And two: the movie poster. So maybe these don’t really have anything to do with the movie itself. But they’re important to me, so I felt that I should mention them. So the trailer. Don’t watch it, whatever you do! It gives the entire movie away! Everything you should be wondering about while you watch the movie is answered during the trailer! It’s so stupid because I felt no need to go and see the movie because everything was given away in the trailer. I only went because there was nothing else in theaters at the time and I knew that I should eventually review it – bad or not. It just wasn’t smart of the people who make the trailers. It’s like giving away the entire book in the inside flap. Who would want to read that book? Not me. Just like I wouldn’t want to see this movie. Okay, now…the movie poster. Another stupid decision by the people who made the movie. It also gives away the ending. By looking at the poster – the MOVIE POSTER – you find out the ending. It’s just not right. Also, right above the movie-give-away on the poster is a huge snap-shot of Amanda Seyfried’s smirking face. It’s just creepy and does not make me want to get up and see that movie. Yeah, that’s about all I have to say…so I guess I lied when I said it would be short and to the point. Oh, well. Overview: Corny and predictable..very ehh and boring at times. That is all.
Real Teen Rating~ D+ : It passes time…barely…
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