We took a slight break from Cops & Detectives to watch what we hoped would be a lighthearted comedy with some friends on Sunday. I insisted on renting When in Rome the day it was released, because being a huge Kristen Bell fan I was sad to have missed it in the theater. So, I reallllllly really wanted to like this movie, but I should have known it was going to be awful. Mostly I just want to rescue Kristen Bell from her team of agents and publicists and save her career. She is so magical, and in a movie that is all ABOUT magic she should have shown like the sun, but was instead completely upstaged by the rest of the cast. Josh Duhamel is ridiculously adorable as a klutzy former football star inexplicably trying to woo Bell's crabby and uptight museum curator. Everyone agreed that she was just so unlikeable that it threw off the entire movie. The most entertaining part was the pack of misfits in love with her because of a spell, especially Jon Heder as a Criss Angel-type magician.
I am still counting this even though Brandon fell asleep in the middle, because he really and truly didn't miss much.
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