Decent homage to the city of Rome

Rating: 7/10 (16 October 2012)

To me "To Rome with Love" is a movie full of perceptions. It is a Woody Allen's tribute to the city in which Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni created their masterpiece "La Dolce Vita". Roberto Benigni character fully represents that with paparazzi chasing him around asking the most banal questions and hanging tight on each - even more banal - answer. In a way it is a reflection of our society and its obsession with celebrities; about how our vain we are and what happens to those celebrities suddenly taken out of the public spotlight (Lindsay Lohen meltdown anyone?) as our interests evaporate while we shift our attention elsewhere to another meaningless "famous" person...
It is also an older Woody Allen's funny perception of women (Alec Baldwin character); with display of what he portrays to be their cunningness compared to what he might have consider to be "romanticism" in his younger years. I said it was "funny" because I'm a guy so as you can see ladies I'm clearly biased :)
Finally you find some laughs as well in the character being played by Woody Allen himself and his dealings with Italian family his daughter is getting married into.
The movie by no means reaches the heights of "Midnight in Paris" but it is not (as some others have claimed) the worst movie Allen's ever made. It is a solid effort in a tough task of paying a homage to the city of Rome.