When in Rome (2010)

THE MOVIE: When in Rome (2010)

MOVIE SLOGAN: Did you ever wish for the impossible?

MAJOR PLAYERS:
* Kristen Bell – Beth (you’ll recognize her as Sarah Marshall from Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the TV series Veronica mars)
* Josh Duhamel – Nick (known best from TV series Las Vegas or the recent Transformers movies)
* Will Arnett – Antonio (He’s Amy Poehler new husband, and known best as Gob from TV series Arrested Development)
* Dax Shepard – Gale (Been in several slapstick comedies such as Employee of the Month, and Baby Mama. Also is engaged to co-star Kristen Bell)
* Jon Heder – Lance (The one and only Napoleon Dynamite)
* Danny Devito – Al Rousso (If you don’t know who Danny Devito is, you’ve been living in a cave for the last three decades.)

BEST QUOTE(S):
NICK: I give it a year?
BETH: I would not even give it 6 months. This marriage has the shelf life of a banana! They’ve known each other for two weeks!
NICK: That’s not even long enough to have a credit check!

WHY THE GUYS WILL SEE IT: Probably because their girlfriend has dragged them to the theater or because they have brought it home to watch.

WHY THE LADIES WILL SEE IT: Because Josh Duhamel is in it

MARKETED AS: Romantic comedy

SYNOPSIS: Beth, a curator and workaholic, has not had her luck in love yet. However, her sister has decided to marry an Italian man that she’s known for only two weeks. While at the wedding which happens to be located near the Fountania d’Amore (Fountain of Love), Beth meets Nick, who is the groom’s best man. They share a spark, but Beth quickly brushes it off when she sees another woman making advances on Nick. Sad, defeated, and heavily infused with wine, she wades into the Fountain of Love, and begins to take coins from the fountain. Although, little does Beth know that people throw coins into the fountain to hopefully fall in love. However, if someone takes the coins, then whoever the coin formally belonged to, will then fall in love with whoever took their coins. Beth takes five particular coins from the fountain. Then five particular fellows begin to pursue her and hilarious hijinks ensue, forcing Beth to take a step back from her work and consider adding love into the equation of her life.

MY THOUGHTS: This movie not artistic, it’s not really witty and it’s certainly not smart comedy, but it is very entertaining. This is what I would call and consider a brainless comedy. You don’t have to have brain cells to watch the movie. My friend, Natalie, seems to think that Kristen Bell can’t act her way out of a paper bag, but I disagree. Granted, this movie doesn’t take a whole lot of acting prowress. When you have B-actors like Dax Shepard, Jon Hedar, and Will Arnett, you know the acting quality isn’t going to be spectacular. And this is certainly one of those movies where you repeat consistently in your head, that would never happen.

But when you have a Street performing Magician (Hedar), an artist (Arnett) a narcissistic model (Shepard) and a “Sausage King” (Devito) all chasing after the same girl using their own weird antics, it makes for a pretty entertaining movie.

THE VERDICT: When in Rome! I’ll probably pick this up when it comes out on DVD just because it’s pretty funny and will make for a great movie to watch when I don’t want to have to think. But I would recommend Netflixing it before you decide that you like it or not.