Once again, writer director Woody Allen cracks up his audience with his crazy wit in the movie To Rome with Love, showing at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Five couples were the focus of this comedy love story set in Rome, showing distinctive characters of wit and outright dumbness, guaranteed to make one laugh.To Rome with Love imparts a shallow message, compared to Allen's previous movies. Nevertheless it is true to life, with a lot of exaggeration of course which makes up for its humor.
Allen plays Jerry in the film, an art producer who dreads retirement, and finds solace and approval from his pyschiatrist wife Phyllis (Judy Davis). He finally wounds up with his daughter's future father-in-law, a mortician whom he successfully promoted to be an opera star on the shower.
Each couple in the film are entangled in a situation whose twists and turns are as wacky as the plot and their punch lines. Allen resolves each situation with a powerful knot of convincing endings.
There is Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni), a predictable, routinary family man, who suddenly became the object of endearment of the paparazzi and becomes an instant popular celebrity. He is constantly hounded by the press, asked the dumbest questions, meant to poke fun on how intrusive and obnoxious media people could get.
John (Alec Baldwin), a celebrated architect in the US, returns to Rome to visit his old home and meets Jack (Jesse Eisenberg). He acts as an active observer of the love triangle happening between Jack, his girlfriend Sally (Greta Gerwig), and Monica (Ellen Page).
Anna (Penelope Cruz) is the high end prostitute in the film who accidentally had to act as the wife of a neophyte business who came to Rome to visit his family and begin a new job.Allen did a terrific mix of characters in the film, and the plot, although absurd, guaranteed big laughter from the spectators. To Rome with Love is surely entertaining, however shallow, only Allen has the genius to be able to pull it off.
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