A Slice of Chicago Romance

Look my wife watches a ton of these "garbage" rom com movies. Which I'm not here to dump on people enjoying, heckninwatch half of them with her, and while objectivly bad, they server their purpose: to be a little bit of fluff that is enjoyable despite itself.

The acting is about the same as 90% of the other rom com movies, follows the same formula that many others do, and had primarily white casts of hot, but only "halmark" hot actors.

So why am I bothering to give this one a bad review while I'm letting all the others slide? Because it's called: "a slice of Chicago romance" they specifically choose a location known for pizza, and even made a point to say the difference between NY and Chicago Pizza, is that Chicago Pizza tastes like home, and then they proceeded to never once make or show a Chicago Pizza! You can't choose a whole premise of a location known for a very specific style of Pizza, and then ignore that said very specific style of pizza!

The story line is so predictable. I've seen another movie that pretty much had the same story line years ago. The acting was mediocre. At times I felt like I was watching a high school play. What really got me was a major pet peeve. The character Bradley says "Declan and I's wedding plans." Yes he said "I's." I rewound and listened again. Since when is "I's" correct English grammar? This is such a basic rule but I am seeing it used more and more which is just ridiculous. The correct word and one that any good writer should know is "my." I am pretty sure the word "my" was used at other times in the movie so I'm not sure why that line was incorrect.

Another movie inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet but with a happy ending. AFAIK, there are at least two movies which had pizza restaurants feud - Pizza My Heart (2005) and Little Italy (2018), they were obvious inspiration, and there is nothing wrong with if it's done right.

For some reason(s), Reel One Entertainment in 2022 is pushing Italian theme in their TV movies... Anyway, casting and acting was fine. I liked M. Barker, and too bad M. Kaiser wasn't more prominent as her secondary story was interesting. T. Courtad was good compared to the his previous train wreck (The Perfect Wedding Match).

If I'm going to complain it wasn't obviously filmed in Chicago, movie suffered from time to time of poor audio production like microphones weren't close enough so cast sounded poorly, and there was a bit of some bad makeup (mostly on M. Barker) but nothing serious like in many other ROE TV movies.

In the typical bad ROE tradition, trailer compress whole movie in 2.25 min so don't watch it if you plan to watch movie as is full of spoilers.

I created an account in order to review this.

This is an AMAZING movie. All the hallmarks of a hallmark style movie are here and turned to 11. The lighting leaves you blinded. The sound is inconsistent. The sets and locations are wondrous. They could have filmed this in your backyard. The acting is truly inspirational. If the lead actress could get the job to star in this movie- you could achieve ANYTHING in life. Don't let a lack of talent hold you back. And the story. It will take your breath away. An entrepreneur from NYC who is confused by how a restaurant works. An MBA graduate who is the new CEO of a mom and pop pizza shop and has, from the looks of it, never actually touched a real pizza. Watch this movie. It will make your dreams come true.

Start it for reasons above. Stay watching for the T-shirt salesman in the park who is looking for customers standing behind him regardless of the direction he faces.