7/10
cute movie, bad Brooklyn accents
5 February 2012
This movie is really cute. It's cute for what it is, and the mother-daughter relationship makes it a good movie adults can watch and enjoy as well as teenagers. As with most romantic comedies, it's a bit far fetched, but thats's what makes it fun. I would not have paid to see this in theatres, I probably wouldn't even have paid a few bucks to watch it on demand, but it was on cable this morning, so I put it on, and I was happy with the results. It's not a movie that made me laugh out loud, or inspire any deep emotion, but it was cute, and I wasn't bored. It makes you feel good, and it makes you smile. The reason I bothered to write a review however is because I have a BIG complaint. If you're going to make a movie about a city where people have a certain way of speaking, make sure your actors know how to speak that way. This movie takes place in Brooklyn, and half the actors sound like they're from the Sopranos, the other half just sound like they're trying really hard to sound like the cast of the Jersey Shore, or some other show about Jersey. I grew up in Brooklyn and I don't speak like that, nor do any of the people I grew up with. It's ridiculous and it makes viewers who don't know any better think that people from Brooklyn talk like Jersey Shore trash. It's just so completely not what people from Brooklyn sound like, and it's insulting!
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