I don't know, this Sorrento scandal seemed pretty mild to me. There's a small town and Sophia Loren is in the town and so more than one person wants to be with Sophia Loren and there are some sort of comedic moments and then it kind of ends.
It gets by because Loren had star power, and because it's a colorful film that makes good use of its seaside setting. I guess to some extent, I appreciated how drama-free it was, with little sentimentality or forced tension/conflict later in the film. It really just felt like it was trying to be a fairly gentle comedy about some love-related chaos, and a little escapism as a result.
It's not essential and probably won't be memorable in time (to me), but it felt like it did what it wanted to do. Scandal in Sorrento isn't really ambitious at all, from what I can tell, but it does succeed at being decent. That's more than can be said for some movies, and I do also want to go a tiny bit easier on this one because of its age.
