Letters to Juliet

If you like your movies as sweet as sherbet and soft as marshmallows, you’ve come to the right place. It won’t surprise you that the subject is love, and the setting is none other than the alleged (in the movie at least) balcony in Verona where Romeo and Juliet whispered their sweet promises of forever.

Over the years, love-struck women have posted - on this very balcony - letters to Juliet asking for advice on the subject of men. Conveniently, a local task team of women decided to answer the letters on behalf of the Shakespearian persona, like a agony aunt troupe, if you will. So, when dear Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) arrives in the town with her BF, she decides to help out and offer her pearls of wisdom to the writer of a letter to Juliet, which just happens to be about 50 years old. Much to Sophie’s surprise, the woman, now old and grey, pitches up in Verona and recruits her to assist in finding the love she lost so long ago. Hey, I didn’t say it was believable. For the squishy at heart only…

Rating: 3 outta 5.