While not being entirely original or clever in its exploration of modern Italian culture, it's a light-hearted film which delivers just enough giggles to keep it upbeat and kind of cute.
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07/03/09
Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2008)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:2
Rotten:19
Average Rating:3.5/10
Synopsis: Fishmonger Jake Bianski (Jay Jablonski) has a bit of a problem. He's madly in love with his teenage sweetheart, Isabella (Marisa Petroro)--even though they broke up eight years before and she is... [More]
Starring: Jay Jablonski, Cerina Vincent, John Kapelos, John Enos
Director: Jason Todd Ipson
Reviews for Everybody Wants to Be Italian
Top CriticIt's all a bit offbeat and as a consequence we are more than ready to chuckle and open up our hearts
06/27/09
Top CriticInstead of making a likeable main character, the filmmakers give us the egotistical, brash, rude and obnoxious character of Jake.
04/18/09
This lame-brain romantic comedy strives hard for a shambling charm, but is unlikely to prove appealing to even the most undemanding of audiences.
09/08/08
A dreadful romantic comedy with totally unappealing characters.
09/06/08
If you thought the ethnic stereotyping in My Big Fat Greek Wedding was bad, this charmless romantic comedy will drive you to despair.
09/05/08
[Sets] up hackneyed relationships, conflicts and resolutions with such a lack of imagination and subtlety that paying attention to narrative particulars quickly becomes a waste of time.
09/05/08
The film is a reminder why romantic comedies have died off so much in recent years.
09/05/08
A box of cannoli long past its sell-by date.
09/05/08
Top CriticWriter-director Jason Todd Ipson's romantic comedy is so awash in tired ethnic clichés that the story drowns.
09/05/08
Full of clunky humor, battle-of-the-sexes musings and spicy accordion music, Everybody Wants to Be Italian is relentless -- but not necessarily relentless fun.
09/05/08
Constructed out of tired jokes, vaguely familiar actors and a few forced and predictable situations, it's strictly a harmless place-filler.
09/05/08
The film plays out pretty much exactly as you would expect -- which won't bother some people one iota.
09/05/08
With a title like this, shouldn't Jason Todd Ipson's comedy celebrate Italian culture? Instead, it aggressively insults the heritage it pretends to admire.
09/05/08
How atrocious is the comedy Everybody Wants to Be Italian? Let me count the ways.
09/05/08
Top CriticIt's pretty obvious. Everybody Wants to Be Italian wants to be the next My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Unfortunately, it doesn't have nearly as much charm as the 2002 sleeper. In fact, Italian doesn't have much charm to it at all.
09/04/08
Beantown provides a salty backdrop, but when the action shifts to Italy, it seems the budget didn’t include airfares.
09/04/08
Romantic comedies don't always have the strongest concepts, but Everybody Wants to Be Italian begins with what barely qualifies as an idea.
09/04/08
Maybe if Everybody Wants To Be Italian were even intermittently funny, the stereotypes wouldn’t matter.
09/03/08
If Italians had their own term for 'schmaltzy', this awful, derivative and painfully cringeworthy piece of steaming crap would be the most loathsome example of such an adjective.
09/02/08
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