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No need to give away plot points, since the whole story is absolutely predictable from start to finish. But the way it is peppered with implausible elements, almost offensive sterotypes and clichés, and a totally uninspired direction, make this movie bearable to watch only if you can enjoy unvoluntarily embarrassing, silly moments and scenes. None of the actors seem interested in what they are doing; both Sarah Jessica Parker ad Raoul Bova, elsewhere charming, make you wonder what's even remotely interesting or attractive in the characters the play. And it's quite painful to watch Claudia Cardinale delivering a grotesquely bad acted performance. Close to "so bad, it's good"; alas, it's just bad.

There is really not that much that can be said about this movie. Wafer-thin when it comes to the plot, it simply is a series of sketches involving a group of paparazzi trying to chase down celebrities.

The quality of the movie is non existent, and the fact that the vast majority of the alleged "V.I.P."'s (all playing themselves) in the movie have now disappeared is a testament of how useless the whole thing is.

And the whole thing looks extremely cheap, shot and edited in a very bad way, with an incongruous, random score; something that has sadly become a trademark for director Neri Parenti.

Bad acting all over the place, and this is nothing new from both Christian De Sica and Massimo Boldi, both recycling old trite gags; but it is frankly embarrassing watching an actor as solid as Diego Abatantuono can be, taking part in this anemic, embarrassing farce.

What a huge, huge disappointment this movie has been. It starts in the best of ways, and the mood that transpires from the first 15 minutes is absolutely promising. Then the plot keeps growing less and less logical, the suspension of disbelief required to the audience becomes just too much, and way too many silly details keep being added. Anyone can see coming all the alleged twists in the plot, way before they materialize on screen. I don't want to spoil and give away the plot, but the whole story, quite simply, doesn't stand on its feet and lacks too many logical explanation in order to properly work. On top of that, some scenes and sequences are shot in a really goofy way and had the audience laughing, and the scenes involving female nudity are shot in a cheap and gross way, and are completely gratuitous. A side note to the Italian version: all the actors are dubbed in Italian, as usual, and Sylvia Hoeks' dubbing, courtesy of Myriam Catania, is quite simply way over the top and unbearable.