Letters to Juliet

[sarahjc78]

Crumbs.... no sugar for me for the rest of the year.. sickly sweet.

Just seen this at a pretty busy Silverlink... I love cheesy chick flicks but this was OTT.. very predictable and thought the acting was a bit pants too.

Scenery was gorgeous which made up for the film.... I was so wanting it to be speedo man.. sure that would have made a better film!

4/10

[valda]

Just seen this at a packed cinema in Wimbledon!
What can I say apart from being a nice film but very cheesy. It was better than I expected really after seeing the trailers I thought I was going to be disappointed.
Amanda seyfried was quite irritating as she was too sweet as pie!

Overall 6/10

LOL at the music track going all wonky in Wimbledon

I was not interested in Sophie or Charles, she was so sickly as Tilly says. Charles I think was trying to be the typical bumbling Hugh Grant Brit and failing. However Vanessa Redgrave was fab and her sweetheart. Wouldn't it be lovely to live like that, eating under the trees with your extended family! 6/10

[Beate]

Oh my God how cheesy was this and how predictable! Every cliche in the book, from the balcony scene to the knight on a white charger to the "I hate you now I love you" to the "let's lie on the grass and look up at the stars" to the "big Italian family meal under a tree" thing. It really irks me that American films always have to portray the British with a posh "grew up in a stately home" accent, and the Brit and Amanda Seyfried had zero chemistry. No wonder really that they acted woodenly what with the awful lines they had to say! This was supposed to be a romantic film but I started to treat it as an unintentionally hilarious comedy half way through. The whole cinema erupted at the end when he fell off the balcony and she asked "Can you move?" and he said "Only my lips." Oh yes, and holiday romances between a British teenager and an Italian stallion really are that special that they remember each other 50 years later. "It's never too late."

6/10 and that is purely because of Vanessa Redgrave and the lovely Tuscan landscape which makes me want to visit straight away - I wonder whether the Italian tourist board was financing the film?

[Beate]

Take the 43 bus, Beate. It will drop you very close. Much easier than a complicated tube ride. (Cinema is on left hand side -- you'll pass by Waitrose, M&S on the right side.) Enjoy. I'm hosting a meeting at my house tonight so must forfeit cinema trip.

Thanks, I did that. Ended up on the same bus as your daughter!

[soonforgotten]

This film was ridiculous. Besides it being completely cheesey and predictable, I wanna know what mail service they used that somehow allowed the letter (that she apparently spent all day writing) managed to somehow get to England in time for the grandmother and her grandson to fly to Verona the very next day. WTF? And way to go on the short notice for that wedding. Good thing she was free that Saturday. Such a load of rubbish. I was so fearful after she said "Can you move?" I knew what was coming, but I was begging them not to be that disgusting, but nope, it was as I feared. Unforgivably horrible.

On the plus side Verona is gorgeous and it really made me miss it and Amanda Seyfried has definitely got some impressive assests, so a couple points for those- 5/10.

[sarahjc78]

And way to go on the short notice for that wedding. Good thing she was free that Saturday

Ha Ha Ha hilarious...

What an exhibitionist she was at the end too .... i could never snog someone like that if my granny to be and a load of stranger were walking up to me.... floozy

[Beate]

This film was ridiculous. Besides it being completely cheesey and predictable, I wanna know what mail service they used that somehow allowed the letter (that she apparently spent all day writing) managed to somehow get to England in time for the grandmother and her grandson to fly to Verona the very next day. WTF? And way to go on the short notice for that wedding. Good thing she was free that Saturday. Such a load of rubbish. I was so fearful after she said "Can you move?" I knew what was coming, but I was begging them not to be that disgusting, but nope, it was as I feared. Unforgivably horrible.

On the plus side Verona is gorgeous and it really made me miss it and Amanda Seyfried has definitely got some impressive assests, so a couple points for those- 5/10.

Ha ha, I was wondering the same. In a good week a letter can make it in two days from Germany to the UK or vice versa but the Italian mail service is in a different league, and as you say, who books a flight for the next day (even Ryanair is expensive then) or sends a wedding invitation from Italy to the USA for in 5 days' time? And judging from the many different outfits Sophie wore they must have spent at least 2 weeks looking for Lorenzo! Had to laugh at the Spartacus-like "I am Lorenzo. And I am Lorenzo." scenes!

[Beate]

And way to go on the short notice for that wedding. Good thing she was free that Saturday

Ha Ha Ha hilarious...

What an exhibitionist she was at the end too .... i could never snog someone like that if my granny to be and a load of stranger were walking up to me.... floozy

Hey, this was love! Seize the day! What if! Follow your heart! It's never too late!

(Have I forgotten one? )

[hdaniel82]

God this really was cheese on toast wasn't it?! Some unforgivably atrocious lines in places and some wooden acting for sure, but I rather enjoyed it. The landscape really was beautiful wasn't it? I want to go to Italy now :)

6.5/10

[raj101]

'Take him! TAKE HIM !' lol

a cheap alternative to an Italian summer holiday for me.

is it just me or was that guy somehow related to the late Heath Ledger?