I did something last night I didn't think I'd go -- give up famboy material such as Ironman 2 or the rehashed Gladiator wannabe "Robin Hood" and see Letters to Juliet instead. It was the lack of intelligence the other movies threatened me with that shaped the decision. Plus being with my old friend Kim, who's tolerated many a monster/fighter movie already.
The start was very girlpal esque, Juliet's Window is a this tight little spot in Verona where distraught people, mostly females, write letters of their situations and stick them to the wall. Then the Secretaries of Juliet take in the letters and respond to each and everyone of them.
Our main girl, Sophie, blonde and beautiful but nowhere near over-the-top glamorous (extra points here) follows them when they're collecting letters, and says she wants in. Also has a dream to be a writer, not a mere fact checker, for the local paper she works with. Ta da, chance to write.
She follows them, after friendly meetings, and finds a letter 50 years old in a brick inside the wall. She answers it, hoping against hope that the recipient stick resides at the listed address, and of course gets a response (or the movie would've ended). Claire, the writer of the original note, shows up with her grandson to find out who wrote the letter and find her missing man, Lorenzo Bortelini.
Her disgustingly rude grandson, a fantasticly handsome Australian actor of Home and Away, has joined his granny for the quest. They hit it off. Only Sophie has a fiancee who's an easy write off from the script as he's always off to wine tasting and mushroom and food, being a chef.
They look everywhere and don't find him, Claire and Attractive Male grow closer, eventually kiss and then they split ways when they find a particular Lorenzo sitting in a grace. "Too much emotional wear and tear", ya know?
They find the guy before Sophie returns home.
This is really a love note to Italy, gorgeously shot and it looks good and it isn't so disgustingly lovely-dovey like many a chick-flick. I actually enjoyed this and could laugh when Claire and Sophie ganged up against Attractive Male Lead to get him to shoo off, leaving the girls to talk.
She returns to New York with her story of Clair's finding, then gets invited to the wedding and heads back. They get together.
Simple and not selling love as the greatest virtue in the world, ever, bar none. More telling the story of how love is merely as durable as you are, if not moreso, and such it's never too late.
Want minireviews of the other movies I didn't watch?
Ironman 2 - Tony Stark saves the day in metal.
Robin Hood - we're all left with a "But they already MADE Gladiator" feel in our mouths
XXXX? - I honestly can't remember the fourth option that there was.
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