When in Rome
Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel
Mark Steven Johnson
Happy Superbowl Sunday, everyone. I’ll try to put my distaste in the ad scandals of this year’s football game aside for now and get on to the main subject of this blog: gender in movies.
This last weekend I saw When In Rome, which is about a business-minded woman (Bell) who goes to the wedding of her younger sister in Rome. She has the stereotypical “business woman syndrome” portrayed in movies: attractive, tough yet struggling at work, at a loss for finding men, doesn’t care to ever find a man. Never fear though, my faithful friends, because in a drunken stupor she pulls coins out of the Fountain of Love in Rome. And as everyone (apparently) knows, when you do so the people who owned said coins will fall madly in love with you. The movie chugs along with her attempting to avoid the infatuated crazies and decipher if one crazy (Duhamel) is simply under the spell of the Fountain or if he truly loves her.
And as predictable as an ice storm in Oklahoman winter, the business woman falls in love and sheds her work obsession for a hot man with nice abs.
There’s not a lot else I have to say about this one. It is pretty self explanatory. The Napoleon Dynamite jokes are great, though, for those of my generation.
I give this three vagenises.
The Goods: slightly funny, Napoleon Dynamite jokes.
The Bads: ridiculous “why should a woman be working so hard there must be something wrong with her” attitude.
