Letters to Juliet
A romantic comedy about a young American (Mamma Mia's Amanda Seyfried), who travels to the Italian city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame.
There she joins a group of volunteers who answer letters to Juliet seeking advice about matters of the heart. She answers one letter dated from 1957, inspiring its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love.
- Director:
- Gary Winick ('Bride Wars', 'Charlotte's Web', '13 Going on 30')
- Writer:
- Jose RiveraTim Sullivan
- Cast:
- Amanda SeyfriedGael García BernalVanessa RedgraveChristopher EganFranco Nero
Reviews & comments
Terrible flick.
[Spoilers ahead] I'd say this would have to be in the top 3 worst movies I have ever seen. The movie is predictable and completely unrealistic. All the male characters are either desperate or moronic. We are supposed to sympathise with the female lead even though she blatantly cheats on her fiancée. The dialogue was so bad that you could tell the actors...
SO SO - I MEAN OK...
Saw this at Highland Park (Great Place!)..The movie moved along at a quiet ambling pace & at times it felt like "sleepy" like is there anything to wake us up. It never many aha moments in it only when the man on the horse arrived and when Charlie fell down the wall. So it's half and half for points. 3/5 Check it out for yourself & see.
Brainless
I'm being kind with my rating, only because the scenery was so lovely. But the acting and dialogue were rubbish!! I can't believe Vanessa Redgrave would stoop so low! If they could have cut out the scenes with the hopeless humans in them and just shown the countryside and beautiful buildings I would have rated it a 4.
GOOD (not refreshing though)
Let's be up front. Italy should have got first billing on this film. Even if it was Italy with a fair bit of photoshopping and plastic surgery. I sure don't remember Italy being this clean, uncrowded or quiet - even the samll towns! The actors and actresses generally pretty good (even the Aussie) GG Bernal the biggest let down, as he was pretty...
Variety
pressJose Rivera and Tim Sullivan's script relentlessly piles on goopy conversation-stoppers like "Do you believe in destiny?" and "I didn't know that true love had an expiration date."
TVNZ
pressThere's a few cheesy contrived moments as well as some predictable moments but all in all Letters to Juliet delivers exactly what you'd expect.
Hollywood Reporter
pressBland, predictable picture, whose sole assets are a cute premise, the Italian countryside and the dignity Vanessa Redgrave brings to a part that, on the page, is quite beneath her.
Variety
pressJose Rivera and Tim Sullivan's script relentlessly piles on goopy conversation-stoppers like "Do you believe in destiny?" and "I didn't know that true love had an expiration date."
TVNZ
pressThere's a few cheesy contrived moments as well as some predictable moments but all in all Letters to Juliet delivers exactly what you'd expect.
Hollywood Reporter
pressBland, predictable picture, whose sole assets are a cute premise, the Italian countryside and the dignity Vanessa Redgrave brings to a part that, on the page, is quite beneath her.
Terrible flick.
[Spoilers ahead] I'd say this would have to be in the top 3 worst movies I have ever seen. The movie is predictable and completely unrealistic. All the male characters are either desperate or moronic. We are supposed to sympathise with the female lead even though she blatantly cheats on her fiancée. The dialogue was so bad that you could tell the actors...
SO SO - I MEAN OK...
Saw this at Highland Park (Great Place!)..The movie moved along at a quiet ambling pace & at times it felt like "sleepy" like is there anything to wake us up. It never many aha moments in it only when the man on the horse arrived and when Charlie fell down the wall. So it's half and half for points. 3/5 Check it out for yourself & see.
Brainless
I'm being kind with my rating, only because the scenery was so lovely. But the acting and dialogue were rubbish!! I can't believe Vanessa Redgrave would stoop so low! If they could have cut out the scenes with the hopeless humans in them and just shown the countryside and beautiful buildings I would have rated it a 4.
GOOD (not refreshing though)
Let's be up front. Italy should have got first billing on this film. Even if it was Italy with a fair bit of photoshopping and plastic surgery. I sure don't remember Italy being this clean, uncrowded or quiet - even the samll towns! The actors and actresses generally pretty good (even the Aussie) GG Bernal the biggest let down, as he was pretty...
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