Letters to Juliet

"Letters to Juliet" is a guilty pleasure for the ladies, perfect fodder Blu-ray, when their partners become World of Warcraft Widows for the night.

In the case of Victor, the Chef "Top" heartthrob fantasy in this paint-by-numbers romance, not video games that appeal to his girlfriend with bulging eyes, but the sensation of taste. Played by Mexican Indie idol Gael Garcia Bernal, Victor is taking his beautiful blonde, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a "pre-honeymoon in Italy, but he spends all his time and wine tasting to learn new recipes rustic.

As good final table, their oral fixations leave little time to feign interest in the passions of Sophie. While she is talking about his dream of becoming a writer, he is lost in another cheesegasm. She tries to be supportive, but finally puts his foot down: "I do not know why you want to travel 120 miles to see a mushroom."

While the relationship with his narcissistic Mr. Mal reveals slowly, Sophie discovers a 50-year-old "letter to Juliet" on the left in a kind of shrine to the heroine of Shakespeare convicted in fair Verona, where we our scene.

With the permission of "Juliet's secretaries, who respond to the avalanche of letters posted on the wall there, Sofia writes an answer, and soon is helping an English manor (Vanessa Redgrave) seeking lost love of his youth - over the objections of her overprotective grandson (the blond Australian Christopher Egan).

Could prickly Brit, who turns his nose up at Sophie informal Americanisms ("Incredible!"), Actually be the perfect man? Well, duh!

Seyfried - who played another Sophie in "Mamma Mia!" - A little more than standing around looking pretty, and even the inestimable Redgrave is not given much character to work with them.