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Are Italians really like this? :-)

I have just finished watching these 3 romantic comedy ... sort of ... stories in Italian with Norwegian subtitles.

A young lawyer is sent out to buy a family estate for a corporation and runs into a beautiful and wild girl who shakes his engagement and world. He tells the family not to take the money and reconciles with his fiancée.

An established Italian news anchorman is vexatiously seduced by a voluptuous woman who turns out to be a psychopathic stalker who apparently lets him impregnate her. His wife and daughter find out and walk out on him, while his seductress is institutionalized but lets him have the videotape she made of their sex sessions, apparently loving him. He is reassigned to Africa and leaves her there, and we later see him being Danteanly brutalized in his destination by thugs.

Giving us older guys hope, De Niro plays a heart transplant Italian American history prof whose lecherous landlord quickly becomes re-estranged from his voluptuously beautiful daughter (Monica Belucci no less), when he is scandalized to discover she has been a strip teaser and pole dancer in Paris ... and our prof gives her shelter. (Is there any male on Planet Earth who *wouldn't* give Monica Belucci shelter?) Mercifully, some of De Niro's soliloquies are in English.

The film does not reflect well on Italian men, who are portrayed as being neurotically weak - lots of extraneous gesturing - and run by their women ... except for De Niro, of course.

Some of the scenes are funny ... some are HOT with beautiful Italian women in various stages of undress ... and it amused me but not enough to watch it again anytime soon.

The film's climax is triumphant with Monica Belucci and De Niro having faith in themselves, each other, and life to have a baby boy regardless of obstacles - and I am very glad Monica has herself had two daughters: beautiful and intelligent women should indeed be reproduced. If she has a sister or niece who needs shelter, I am at her service.

But without Monica Belucci, I would not have rated the film as high as a 6. Even then, I wish she had proudly and shamelessly displayed more of her heart-stopping beauty, and the appreciation of such healthy feminine beauty is a national trait to the credit of all Italians ... and some of the rest of us.

Lou Coatney

Pleasant surprise! The director Giovanni Veronesi presents us with a film with a format already used in films directed by other directors, but with a unique sense of humor ... When the story moves toward mawkishness, Veronesi immediately "speaks to us", "Hey, you're watching a comedy, remember?" And then in a matter of seconds the laughter comes spontaneous, magical ... In my opinion, Carlo Verdone and Donatella Finocchiaro give us a real "show" the interpretation! Magnificent two with the episode number two! Robert De Niro once again shows that it is an extremely versatile actor ... His strip is comic and the comic actor knows to be dosed ridicule ... And Monica Belucci? Beautiful, lush mature at the age ... ready to be "harvested" with a seductive aspect ... Cinematography made ​​with care and that captures the atmosphere and Italian ... On a scale of 1 to 10, vote is 9.

Spoilers I live close to Italy and I have often found it unfair how they are usually portrayed as lustful beasts with no principles, Italians apparently have no problems with these allegations judging from this film.

It features three stories at different times in the lives of three stereotypical alpha male leads. Each has some sort of adventure with a woman which for one reason or another raises eyebrows. The women in these stories are incredibly one-dimensional and unoriginal, reminiscent of 1950s B-rate movies.

The packaging at least promises three love stories and for some reason one of them isn't even about love. De Niro's appearance makes the movie slightly more passable but it does not redeem the predictable storyline which is almost an insult to the audience.

I was watching this with my girlfriend and I have to admit that the film does fall in the category of "so bad it's good". We laughed and commented this film heartily. That at least saved it from being a complete waste of time.

A truly wonderful film and not the typical romantic comedy. a film to see and talk about after you seen it. De Niro is, as most of the time, superb, and all the Italian actors are good as well.

I was very skeptic to the film since I had heard nothing of it, but I find it even better than "love actually" that is a similar film.

SPOILER ALERT: there are some fantastic scenes in the film; among others De Niro striptease, but the true greatness is in the dialog and the (maybe) new perspective you will have on love, cheating, honesty and a lot more things that concerning living. I would truly recommend this film for everyone to see, maybe young people wont appreciate it as much as 25+ but its still a funny film.