Thesping and production values are solid and sometimes even attractive, but pic's overall American-style gloss becomes extremely odd and discomforting given the setting.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The ideal movie for people too lazy to read a Harlequin romance, this by-the-numbers love story doesn't offer a single surprise.
Lopes along amiably enough, offering a few smiles and the standard bromides about the importance of being yourself and pursuing your dreams. It's tolerable but forgettable.
Simultaneously nakedly formulaic and oddly clumsy, particularly in terms of character introduction.
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
A mild cross between "The Big Chill" and "Sex and the City," this English-language German oddity is a romantic comedy passing through on its way to video.
20
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Sometimes the predictability of a romantic comedy is reassuring, and sometimes it makes you want to scream, as with this witless wonder.
10
Village Voice
Village Voice
Painfully contrived, Venus and Mars's dialogue tends toward banal (as opposed to quotably bad), and the rhythm at which lines are read is definitely alien.