All You Ever Wished For

I wish I studied instead of watching this movie. Now I'll have to study double to make up for the brain cells it stole from me. Ok so I'll say the good and the bad about this movie.

PLUS POINTS: +Lovely scenery +Interesting idea, I guess +Italian theme MINUS POINTS: -Weird, like REALLY weird (a guy falls in love with a cow and constantly wants to milk it, like what????) -Horrible script -Awful acting -Super confusing plot -Lame jokes

Altogether, "All You Ever Wished For" was "Nothing I Ever Wished For." It was weird and not in a quirky cute way. It was rushed and slow at the same time. Maybe, just maybe, if it was done differently I might have liked it.

But that's me trying, with all my might, to be optimistic. The only thing I gained from this movie was an urge to visit italy.

Ciao!

Good production values, average actors, juvenile plot. I wonder how do things like this get made???? Yes it was bad on so many levels. But it was not terrible. I doubt I could do better if given 'all the money in the world' , but back to my question, HOW DO THINGS LIKE THIS GET MADE?? Or more importantly why did I watch it, and why did I write a review. ??? I have to assume it is due to the 'Italian tax credit law No. 244 of December 24th 2007'

Seriously the film is terrible.

But I would like to address the childishness of the other reviewer who says that stereotypical view sof Italy are "typical American mindset."

Actually this is a typical EUROPEAN mindset. I've lived and worked half my life in Europe and Europeans engage in stereotypes about other European countries and their peoples ALL the time, and do so especially in film

There are BAFTA winning, and other European award winning films where a British writer writes about France, a German writer sets a film in Spain, or a Greek film maker sets a film in Stockholm, or a French filmmaker sets a film in the USA or with American characters that are FULL of stereotypes. Moreover if you know Italy, northern Italians hold profoundly stereotyped views of southern Italy and visa versa. The stereotypes are part of the humor.

So stop the culture of complaint and stop being offended at everything. The problem with this film is not stereotypes about Italy and Italians, but poor writing and poor acting.

Nothing to be taken seriously. It's probably a spoof. Did no one else see a resemblance to Shakespeare? As in Midsummer Night's Dream? Or some of Mozart's comic operas? The plot's as old as history. Just a fun time to while away an hour on a pandemic night at home.

A sweet little romp with a commedia dell'arte flair.