Letters to Juliet 2010

A bit of a boring mushy timepass.

Estrogen overload?

I like Amanda Seyfried. Why? She looks fresh, intelligent and even though she is blonde, I don't hate her. Why she is stuck with these light movies, I don't know, maybe its the above mentioned blondness.

Back to the movie, Sophie (Amanda) is a fact checker for the New Yorker and an aspiring writer (surprise! surprise!) engaged to an immensely irritating, fake italian accented(which is deliberate) Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal), who is opening an italian restaurant. They go for a pre wedding trip to Italy, where Victor ignores her for all the suppliers for his restaurant. Sophie finally takes off by herself and finds Juliets house where lovelorn, hormone overloaded women write letters to juliet (hence the name) and self appointed secretary's of juliet answer them. Sophie finds a letter from 1976 from Claire, who leaves behind her love Lorenzo and wants to know if what she did was right. Poor abandoned Sophie writes back and Claire comes to Italy after 50 years to find her Lorenzo accompanied by a gruff with heart of gold grandson (how original) Sophie tags along and you will never guess what happens next ;)

5/10