When in Rome is a romantic comedy film directed by Mark Steven Johnson, co-written by Johnson, David Diamond and David Weissman, and starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel. It premiered in the United States on January 29, 2010.
Beth Harper an art curator (Kristen Bell) was falling in love is a difficult thing. Many years without a lover to make her life without humor. One day, he headed to Rome to attend her sister's wedding. There, he took some coins from the "Waterfall of Love". Shortly after he returned to New York, he was followed by the men who coins he had taken, namely a sausage maker (Danny DeVito), street magician (Jon Heder), a painter (Will Arnett), and a narcissistic model (Dax Shepard) . Meanwhile, a journalist (Josh Duhamel) to do anything to convince Beth that true love is not a fairy tale
Reception
The film has received negative reviews from critics. Review aggretator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 17% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 66 reviews with an average score of 3.4/10. Its consenus states that "A pair of young, attractive leads can't overcome When in Rome's reliance on unfunny gags and threadbare rom-com clichés." Another review aggretator, Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average of 0-100 of the top reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film a "generally unfavorable" score of 25% from 24 reviews.
Despite negative reviews, James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film a fair review of 2.5/4 stars, claiming, "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, even if sometimes that rooting goes so far as to wish the script would serve the couple better than it does."
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