When in Rome

2010

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: January 29, 2010 | PG-13

Starring: Josh Duhamel, Kristen Bell

Summary: An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a “foolish” fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter… Expand

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 91 min

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James Berardinelli

It is neither deep nor intelligent, but it’s not intended to be either. The saving grace of the otherwise generic product is that Bell’s vivacity and Duhamel’s rakish charm allow the viewer to root for them. Read full review

Claudia Puig

A little bit of charm is precisely what this movie has to offer. A small dose is better than none, but you can’t help wishing there was more to go around. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Regardless of where its stars want to take it, all roads here lead to blandness and inanity. Read full review

Andrea Gronvall

Josh Duhamel plays the smitten sports reporter who helps her mount her big art show, “Pain”–a fitting title, given the agony induced by this godawful comedy. Read full review

Janice Page

It winds up being predictably charmless and forgettable, even as a travelogue or iPod download. Read full review

Rick Groen

In the case of When in Rome, oh to do what the Romans used to do: Toss the bloody thing to the lions. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

How do movies this bad still get made? Read full review

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Payup

Sep 28, 2010

One of the few movies that start badly and then just go uphill and keep improving. good for a couple of laughs and just overall extremely fun to watch. i normally hate kristen bell, but even she couldn’t drag down this great film. loved it.

jennysurfer

Jan 31, 2010

Perfect chick flick for a night out with the ladies!!! Loved the craziness and has a different story line then others of it’s kind. Truly unique!!

RegOz

Jan 27, 2012

I loved it! and I disagree with this movie’s critics…in generall I will never understand most of the critics (especially the ones of Rotten Tomatoes!) . For example, critics often give many starts to comedies that are gruesome, raw and abbuse of sexual imagery (e.g There’s Is Something… Expand

ChadS

Jan 31, 2010

It isn’t 1953 anymore, the year William Wyler’s “Roman Holiday” hit the silver screen, when women, many of them without careers, could fly to Italy for romance and adventure. Beth(Kristen Bell), a working woman, a single woman, doesn’t have the luxury of taking a two-week… Expand

dev92

Aug 24, 2012

It wasn’t totally awful and it doesn’t disguise itself from what it is. The cliched rom-com doesn’t really get made anymore and I can see why. It doesn’t work. With comedies like The Hangover and The 40 Year-Old Virgin dominating the landscape, romantic comedies don’t hold a place in the… Expand

JamesH

May 16, 2010

I saw this movie on a cruise ship one day when I was bored. I couldn’t believe how lazy the writing was – it was more like a bad TV sitcom than a full production movie. Predictability is normal in a romantic comedy but a good one has good chemistry between the leads and is funny. This… Expand

AaronC.

Jan 30, 2010

romantic comedies usually don’t come through, but this film was so very, very terrible. What in the heck are hilarious people like Kristen Bell, Danny DeVito, Angelica Huston, Will Arnett (one of my favorite comedians: terrible in this film) and Dax Sheperd doing in this god awful… Expand

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