Pleasant lightweight fare.

Rating: 7/10 (15 November 2012)

To Rome with love is a perfectly agreeable comedy ,which although it wont change your life will provide an entertaining couple of hours.Tipping it's hat to the European portmanteau films of the nineteen sixties its four separate stories all take either a fantastical or absurd turn and the lives of it's characters are turned upside down. After an unsure start the film settles into a consistently amusing tone which occasionally moves up a gear into the very funny .The stories themselves are quite slight,no more than extended gags in some cases and given the light tone of the film this is perfectly acceptable,however as the film has an almost two hour running time i felt that perhaps ten or fifteen minutes could have been pruned to maintain the light atmosphere.I'm sure also that natives of Rome would take issue with the authenticity of the portrayal of life in that particular city!
It's obviously the film of an older writer director and as such probably wont connect as readily with younger audiences,but a pleasant experience never the less and it's sunny ambiance makes it a tonic on dark wintry evenings.