Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) travels to Verona, Italy with her fiance as a pre-wedding, pre-honeymoon getaway, while there she becomes one of the "secretaries of Juliet" - a group of woman who respond to letters left at the Verona courtyard helping with problems of the heart- and responds to a letter that was written in 1957, within a week she gets a response from the writer, Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) who is now an elderly woman who wants to take Sophie's advice and find her Romeo. Accompanied by Sophie and her grandson Charlie (Chris Egan), Claire travels all over Italy looking for the man she loved 50 years ago, along the way Sophie starts to suspect that Charlie may be "the one", however she doubts her feelings due to her cold feet of getting married.
So the idea of Letters to Juliet is a romantic, happily ever after one but the idea and reality are two separate notions. I mean sure, the characters have their fairytale endings but what about me, where's mine? My happily ever after would be seeing a film that delivers a funny, quirky romantic script that is worth the extremely talented Seyfried's time and breath, while this only provides me with the chance to see the beautiful Italian scenery without paying the overly priced airline ticket. I had seen Chris Egan in Resident Evil: Extinction where he was a beautiful Australian boy being eaten by zombies, his character in this is a pompous Englishmen obviously written to try and contrast Sophie but the end result is an unlikable leading man with a poor English accent. With all its faults, Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave light up the screen, especially when in a scene together and I will admit that I did cry at the extremely predictable ending, but I cry at everything so don't take that as a sign that Letters to Juliet will bring on the water works for you. Overall, the film is pretty crap however Seyfried has so much charm that she can carry her leading guy all the way up to that ivory tower of acting and still look stunning.
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