This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

A lot of fun.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

What's up with Woody Allen and adultery?His 'romantic' films don't end up being romantic, but cheap excuses for him to portray adultery as something that just happens. I bet every single one of his films starts with a not so happy couple and ends with one of them or both cheating on each other. And he makes it seem so natural, as if it's just bound to happen and everyone does it, yet no one feels bad for it. I understand cheating is very common and sometimes makes a film interesting but I've come to believe he is obsessed with the deed...and it bores the hell out of me.Also, his romantic partner, spouse, mistress in his films is always 20+ years younger than him...always.Is that a coincidence, too? This film wasn't any different, though I hoped it would have been.6/10 for the famous cast and nice view of Rome.

The four unrelated plots that compose this mess of a movie focus on classic Allen's themes he tackled better many times before.The plot featuring Benigni is a compressed version of "Celebrity", the Allen movie about the absurdity of contemporary fame-worshipping. Benigni is a most overrated actor/director with a very limited range. His scenes are painful to watch.The story featuring Eisenberg, Gerwig and Page is the standard Allen's fodder of a young man falling for a neurotic/pretentious/unreliable female, in the past the classic Keaton's role. In "Anything Else" Christina Ricci played the Page role. This story is also annoying and the dialogues bad and repetitive. Comments fly around about how sexy and irresistible the Page character is supposed to be, even if she does not strike me as such...A third story features a young Italian couple acting as if they lived in the 50s. They both are ludicrous but manage to cuckold each other given the first chance. The "wise" hooker played by Cruz is straight out of "Deconstructing Harry".The fourth plot was for me the most unbearable, featuring Allen himself at his most Allenish. Stammering, afraid of death and involved in a stupid plan (see "Small Time Crooks" and many others), Allen manages to concurrently insult Italian families and operas.Even the soundtrack is atrocious, with some corny Italian tunes from the 50s. The only saving grace is the photography. However, the real Rome is a mess of ugly buildings and traffic, not the golden collection of monuments showed in the movie…Really an awful mess that should be voted in the negative.... even without mentioning the overbearing product-placement.

You would expect more from an Allen movie, but in this case, it fails completely to even be funny. Many stories are presented, with the only thing in common that they are taking place in Rome. Okay, the scenes of the city are beautiful, but the movie is a madness, with no real story, and, in the end, no real purpose. I mean, was it about the city? broken relationships? misunderstandings? paranoia? No clue. The story about the opera and the shower was kind of funny, I guess, and the one with the newlyweds cute and probably the most interesting story in the film. Now, the one with the uni students had some depth in it, and the one with the unexpected fame was rhetorical, if not crazy. But still, they didn't mingle well with each other. So 3 out of 10.

To Rome With Love is a film of Woody Allen that tells a story of four separate vignettes such as: a clerk who wakes up to himself a celebrity; an architect who takes a trip back to the street wherein he lived as a student;a young couple on their honeymoon; and an Italian funeral director who possesses a singing ability that captures his soon to be in-law who happens to be an American opera director.The ensemble cast of the movie includes Woody Allen himself together with Alec Baldwin,Roberto Benigni,Penélope Cruz,Judy Davis and Jesse Eisenberg.Compared to other Woody Allen films like for example Annie Hall,this is definitely will be considered a minor one due to underdeveloped characters and plot lines.Added to that,many unrealistic events happen that is way beyond belief and it won't be enough to generate the interest of the viewers even though the stories happen in the streets of Rome and it had a strong cast in it.Finally,the plot lines also fail to become one coherent story telling that a viewer may find it somewhat boring and uninteresting at some parts of the movie.