It's all a bit offbeat and as a consequence we are more than ready to chuckle and open up our hearts
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Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2008)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:2
Rotten:19
Average Rating:3.5/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 5, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $322,039
Synopsis: Fishmonger Jake Bianski (Jay Jablonski) has a bit of a problem. He's madly in love with his teenage sweetheart, Isabella (Marisa Petroro)--even though they broke up eight years before and she is... [More]
Starring: Jay Jablonski, Cerina Vincent, John Kapelos, John Enos
Director: Jason Todd Ipson
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Reviews for Everybody Wants to Be Italian
While not being entirely original or clever in its exploration of modern Italian culture, it's a light-hearted film which delivers just enough giggles to keep it upbeat and kind of cute.
07/03/09
Beantown provides a salty backdrop, but when the action shifts to Italy, it seems the budget didn’t include airfares.
09/04/08
If Italians had their own term for 'schmaltzy', this awful, derivative and painfully cringeworthy piece of steaming crap would be the most loathsome example of such an adjective.
09/02/08
With a title like this, shouldn't Jason Todd Ipson's comedy celebrate Italian culture? Instead, it aggressively insults the heritage it pretends to admire.
09/05/08
This lame-brain romantic comedy strives hard for a shambling charm, but is unlikely to prove appealing to even the most undemanding of audiences.
09/08/08
A dreadful romantic comedy with totally unappealing characters.
09/06/08
Has more the feeling of a TV serial than a well-structured movie.
07/22/08
How atrocious is the comedy Everybody Wants to Be Italian? Let me count the ways.
09/05/08
Top CriticIt's pretty obvious. Everybody Wants to Be Italian wants to be the next My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Unfortunately, it doesn't have nearly as much charm as the 2002 sleeper. In fact, Italian doesn't have much charm to it at all.
09/04/08
A box of cannoli long past its sell-by date.
09/05/08
Instead of making a likeable main character, the filmmakers give us the egotistical, brash, rude and obnoxious character of Jake.
04/18/09
The film plays out pretty much exactly as you would expect -- which won't bother some people one iota.
09/05/08
Top CriticWriter-director Jason Todd Ipson's romantic comedy is so awash in tired ethnic clichés that the story drowns.
09/05/08
Maybe if Everybody Wants To Be Italian were even intermittently funny, the stereotypes wouldn’t matter.
09/03/08
[Sets] up hackneyed relationships, conflicts and resolutions with such a lack of imagination and subtlety that paying attention to narrative particulars quickly becomes a waste of time.
09/05/08
Romantic comedies don't always have the strongest concepts, but Everybody Wants to Be Italian begins with what barely qualifies as an idea.
09/04/08
The film is a reminder why romantic comedies have died off so much in recent years.
09/05/08
If you thought the ethnic stereotyping in My Big Fat Greek Wedding was bad, this charmless romantic comedy will drive you to despair.
09/05/08
Constructed out of tired jokes, vaguely familiar actors and a few forced and predictable situations, it's strictly a harmless place-filler.
09/05/08
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