To Rome With Love...3 out of 4 Skittles

Rating: 7/10 (6 September 2012)

In true Woody Allen comedic fashion, To Rome With Love intertwines different stories into one larger piece with the title city set as the background. Some of the story lines are good...some not so much.
The best story arc stars Alec Baldwin playing an architect visiting the city to retrace his steps from thirty years ago when he lived in Rome as a young student. Baldwin runs into his younger self, played with usual neuroticism by Jesse Eisenberg, and follows him through an affair he had with his girlfriend's best friend (played by Ellen Page). The entertaining and amusing story line could have easily been made into a feature length story of its own.
Roberto Benigni stars in what is probably the least entertaining story line as a man with a boring office job doing the same thing everyday who wakes up as a famous celebrity for no apparent reason. The idea is beaten over the audience's head and quickly loses traction. It's one that I wished Allen would have scraped from the story all together.
Even with some of the slower moments To Rome With Love is light and fun, and will entertain Woody Allen fans. It doesn't dive in as deep as some of his other recent flicks, but for Allen, who continues to pump out at least one movie a year, it keeps the train rolling.
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