All You Ever Wished For

Childish, not really funny, acted in a parossistic (I hope italian actors were playing "bad" actors purpousedly, if not, they should all change job at once!). The messy mixture of stereotypes on Italy and italians could have been funny if correct and intelligently used. On the contrary it is an absurd mix of deep rural south placed in the far north Alps where none of these characters are minimally credible not even for a funny movie. If you do not know anything at all about Italy this can maybe go unnoticed, but otherwise it is like placing Alabama redneck or texan stereotypes in a fishing village of Maine or in Seattle. The story is minimal even for a kid's movie and acting..no comment.. except for american actors and for romanian Loren looking beauty Madalina Ghenea. Only real gorgeous part of this otherwise insignificant, not funny, childish even for children, movie.

The rest of the movie doesn't amount to much - the writing is banal at best. Tyler and Rosalia have the best connection, flirty and romantic, in spite of the dialogue. The others were so boring I fast-forwarded through their plots, in spite of the hunky young gay male. Tyler is a pretty badly written character but Darren makes him better than he is. Tyler's father is a reliable actor I liked in Sex and the City who is always very watchable. If you're a huge Darren Criss fan you'll appreciate his charm and curls but other than and the gorgeous visuals of the countryside, there isn't much more. I had it on in the background while online.

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

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!

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.