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...discovered a man wonderful enough to make her want to chuck her job. She soon finds one, when she takes a two-day break from the big exhibition she's preparing and goes to Rome for her sister's wedding. There she meets the groom's best friend Nick (Josh Duhamel). In rom-com terms there's something wrong with him - in that there's "nothing" wrong with him. He doesn't hate her from the start; he's not mismatched with Beth in class or temperament. In fact, he's an even more fabulous specimen than she is: tall...
...gimmick is that Beth, having seen Nick with another woman at the wedding reception, gets squiffed and wanders outside to a Fontana de Amore, where local legend instructs visitors to wish for love by throwing a coin in the water. Graybeards will recall Rome's Fountain of Trevi as the romantic trigger for the plot of the 1954 Three Coins in the Fountain; Hilary Duff honored the tradition in The Lizzie McGuire Movie back in 2003. When in Rome invents a corollary legend: that if you remove a coin from the fountain, the person who put it there will instantly...
...they are the lifelines for When in Rome, because the supporting cast, including Anjelica Huston as a Guggenheim chief curator and Bobby Moynihan as Nick's very possessive pal, has no characters or amusing lines, no substance or subtext, to work with. Beth's four pursuers are even lamer. Heder and Arnett were splendid as Will Ferrell's skating partner and chief rival in Blades of Glory; to see them here, reduced to floundering, is to witness a small crime against comedy expertise. As sad as this is, it's no shock, since the director, Mark Steven Johnson, and writers...
...NICK OF TIME...
There are a few exceptions, most notably the spectacular Robert Walsh in his portrayal of Nick Bottom. Walsh is a breath of fresh air, and his presence on stage adds a kind of vitality to the show that other scenes fundamentally lack. His Bottom is a likable blue-collar guy, charmingly obnoxious and sometimes brash, but all the more endearing for his flaws...