'When in Rome' a waste of time

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Cast: Danny DeVito, Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Jon Heder, Will Arnett

Cert: PG

Well, it’s summer and you should be out walking hand-in-hand with a lover and not wasting your time with this second-rate, cut-price stand-in for romance.

A film so light and fluffy it could blow away on the slightest of breezes sees Bell playing another young, pretty, ambitious New Yorker, Beth, finding the path of true love is anything but smooth.

She heads for Rome for the wedding of her sister, meets the best man Nick (Duhamel), falls for him and finds he’s as unsteady as the guy who dumped her.

She steals some coins from the famous ‘fountain of love’ and then discovers the attached legend: if you steal a coin from said fountain the person who threw it in will fall in love with you.

Well, what if they now live in Borneo, how will your true love ever find you … and why waste your energy trying to figure it all out, anyway?

This is a cobbled-together yarn, slight on every count.

Star Rating: 2/5