The Gist
Beth (Kristin Bell) is busy organizing an important art show when she finds out her sister is getting married in Rome in only a few days. Hoping that her art show planning can wait a few days, she flies out to Rome to see her sister get married. At the reception Beth meets Nick Beamon, best man at the wedding and best friends with the groom. He – one of the only non-foreign ones there – is actually nice to her despite the other guests’ dislike for her. She immediately likes him and talks with him all night. But after going to get some champagne and coming back to find him kissing another girl, Beth leaves the wedding all-together. A little bitter and a lot drunk. On her way back to her hotel she sees a beautiful water fountain – the fountain of Love. Legend has it that if you throw a coin in the fountain you find love. So Beth, instead of throwing a coin in, takes a few for herself instead. She thinks nothing of it until her sister tells her some startling news. If you take coins from the fountain, the people whose coins you took will fall in love with you. Now complete strangers are following her around, telling her they’re in love with her. Problem is, one of those “strangers” is Nick. How can she tell if his supposed love for her is just a spell? She must return the coins to their previous owners to find out who’s in love with her for real and who’s just under a spell.
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
It took me literally FOREVER to work up the enthusiasm to write that gist. I watched the movie when it first came out on onDemand. And, as I’m sure you know, that was MANY MONTHS ago. So the movie was terrible. Down-right, no-exceptions TERRIBLE. It was boring, it was cheesy and it was not funny. Especially for a romantic-comedy. I mean as far as romantic-comedies go lately, none of them are very romantic or funny. This was no exception. The plot, first off, was just bad. I may have looked quirky and funny from the trailers, but it was such a disappointment. The same things just kept happening over and over. She ran into one of the guys that was under a spell, she ran into the guy she was falling in love with, she had another incident with a love-spell victim, she went on a date with the guy she was falling in love with, and so on. I got bored multiple times throughout the movie. I kept glancing at the clock and wondering when it was going to end. Not a good thing to think while watching a movie. Right near the end was the most ridiculous part. At that point my mind was screaming end all ready! Finally it did, but if I recall correctly the ending was cheesy and overrated. The movie would have been a bit redeemable had the characters been tolerable. But no. The writers of this movie’s script were determined to get nothing right. The main character Beth was just…I’m not even sure. Just something was a bit off about her. That and the fact that she refused to make up her mind. I love him, no I don’t, yes I do, no I don’t, yes I do. Over and over and over. Indecisive characters really annoy me while watching a movie. So when I realized that Beth, main character and coin-stealer extraordinaire, lacked the basic survival skill known as decision-making I lost a lot of faith in the movie. And I hadn’t had a lot of faith to begin with. In addition to Beth being a disappointing, lack-luster character…well. EVERY character was disappointing and lack-luster. All of the love-spell victims were just a bit too weird. I know the whole point was for them to be weird – they were the movie’s comedic focal point – but you just couldn’t relate to them at all. The love-interest was okay. But that’s the problem. OKAY does not make for a good love-interest character. It just makes them forgettable. As far as the acting went, none of it was that bad. It was just the script was so bad that the actors had such little to work with. Kristin Bell was actually pretty good – like she is in most of the movies she’s in. I just think that she has to learn to choose the right movies to be in. She’s been in a few really mediocre movies. I think if she chose to be in more promising movies she could actually be a pretty good actress. Overall this movie was a complete disappointment. From the previews it looked so sweet and funny and unique. I really wish it had been. But it certainly wasn’t.
Real Teen Rating~ D- : I wouldn’t bother at all.
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