I had to try to avoid watching or listening to any scenes with Marisa Tomei's self-indulgent, whiny brat character. Fortunately, Bonnie Hunt as her much more grounded, intelligent friend saves the film. Robert Downey, Jr. never seemed to scratch more than the bare surface of his character, and it was hard to imagine Fisher Stevens, who plays Hunt's husband, as a serious love interest for a woman like her (or to avoid seeing him as anything but the second banana he played to Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I. for years). However, the Italian scenery is beautiful beyond description, and the music and romantic Italian atmosphere is an interesting foil for these three very-American citizens. The film overall is a pleasant enough escape if you've nothing else to do on a rainy afternoon.
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