Juliet's Letter

It's a formula movie, one of those that appeals to young females, mostly, and some indulgent males who figure to score from the left-over romantic glow of a chick flick. It's also not very good on almost all levels: the actors are ... weak? ineffective? not engaging? The storyline is ... weak? ineffective? not engaging? The setting is awesome and the scenery breath-taking, but the script is not E.A. Poe, so the location cannot excuse the rest of the weaknesses.

The young actors are, bluntly, too young, and the older actors are, bluntly, too old. Since there is nothing in the middle, the entire movie has nothing for someone, an unusual approach to filmmaking. The male actor, occupation chef, who is engaged to Sophie, who is a fact-checker, not a writer, is over-the-top self-focused, which is annoying when it's supposed to be charming. Sophie looks so young that it's a wonder anyone takes her seriously, including herself. Most startingly, her breasts seem to enlarge throughout the movie: seriously. She starts out somewhat deflated, becomes bouncy, but ends the film voluptuous. Only in the movies, right? Her English love interest, Charlie, needs to find a really good zit treatment regimine as his face is a bit too "real" for the big screen.

If you want to have some fun while watching an otherwise trite, predictable very young chick flick, look for these additional glimpses:

**Charlie, perched atop a picnic table, seems to be flashing the audience with his butt cheeks, perhaps clothed in underwear, but hard to tell -- and then, suddenly, he has pockets and/or button detailing to give the appearance of pants that are totally different when he leaps off the table and stands up.

**Ditto a scene wherein Charlie and Sophie are walking and talking and two women pass them, going the other direction. When their walk takes them down another street, the same two women pass them again. How do I know? I recognized the ill-fitting thong visible through the cotton pants of one of the extras!!

And if you're going to do a balcony scene, BE ON THE BALCONY for the scene.

Would I pay to see the film in the theater? Nope. However, I'd probably rent it when it goes to DVD, especially for a jammie day or a girls' night in. Other than that, you've already seen it done by other actors in other films and much, much better than A Letter to Juliet.