Letters to Juliet is your perfect romantic comedy because it has all the ingredients. In other words, it is cheesy, corny, and stereotypical. If that is what you enjoy, it delivers, but if not, skip it.
Sophie Hall (Amanda Seyfried) travels to Verona, Italy, with her chef boyfriend (Victor) Gael Garcia Bernal for a pre-honeymoon, but like any woman not married to a loser knows, business is now done everywhere and anywhere, often in front of a computer. Since Victor is busy making deals before he opens his Italian restaurant in New York, Sophie has plenty of time to find out that heartbroken girls still write to Juliet (yeah, the character from the novel by Shakespeare) and the answers are provided by a group of employees working for the town to keep the myth alive and bring tourists. Sophie comes across a letter written 50 years ago by Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) and decides to write to her and almost magically Claire shows up in Verona (after traveling from England with her grandson Charlie played by Chris Egan) to find her lover boy from the time that they were teens. Sophie decides to join them in their quest to find Lorenzo Bartolini (Franco Nero) and in the process falls in love with Charlie, even though he comes across as an obnoxious guy.
When Claire and Lorenzo decide to marry, it dawns upon Sophie that she does not really love her fiance, because for him his work is more important than her, and it is better to marry Charlie. Very cheesy!
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