The movie is more a collection of shoddily assembled romantic-driven cliches than an inspiringly creative slice of cinema.
That’s the overall verdict for this nondescript Canadian production that’s crept into town aimed at the romantic at heart. It’s awash in saccharine sweetness with a distinctly ’80s feel from director Donald Petrie and his overzealous cast.
Emma plays an aspiring chef named Nikki who returns from London to her Toronto neighbourhood where she is known and loved by everyone. She has to wait for her work visa to come through before she can accept a new job in the UK, where Jane Seymour puts in a cameo appearance as a snobbish London restaurateur.Almost immediately, she runs into childhood friend Leo , from whom she’s been estranged since their parents opened rival pizza restaurants and the two families engaged in a culinary war.
Roberts and Christensen deserve far better scripts than this lazily conceived, utterly predictable plot in which their entities become little more than pale caricatures. Petrie and his Canadian screenwriters, Steve Galluccio and Vinay Virmani, seem content to reheat old plot lines, while deploying racial stereotypes.There’s one overweight, gay Asian fellow named Luigi who runs a restaurant. One day he is rudely reminded that he’s definitely not of Italian origin.
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