Really Bad . The worst movie I have seen this year so far . I am Italian its a painful movie to watch mostly because it reminds me of The Jersey Shore owned pizzerias.
Little Italy
2018
Comedy / Romance
Little Italy
2018
Comedy / Romance
Keywords: love
Plot summary
Young adults Nikki Angioli and Leo Campo were staunch competitors and best friends growing up in the Little Italy neighborhood of Toronto. Their respective fathers, friends Sal Angioli and Vince Campo, ran Pizza Napoli, which made the best pizza in the neighborhood due to the combination of Nikki's paternal nona Franca Angioli's secret marinara sauce, and Leo's paternal nono Carlo Campo's secret thin crust pizza dough recipe. While Leo has stayed in Toronto working part-time at his father's pizzeria with the secret hopes of one day opening his own pizzeria, Nikki, who loved Leo while they were growing up, ran off to London five years ago hoping never to return to Toronto to get away from her past, which includes Leo himself, who she believes has turned into a ladies man solely trying to put notches in his bedpost, and Sal and Vince now in a feud of an unspecified nature following they winning best pizza in Little Italy several years ago, each subsequently having opened competing pizzerias next door to each other, which would preclude Nikki and Leo getting together even if either wanted. Nikki is working toward being a chef in her own right of anything but pizza, she at the cooking school of famed Michelin starred chef, Corinne, who seemingly has nothing nice to say about anyone, especially her students. Nikki learns that it is between her and another student, Gareth, who Corinne will choose to work at her new London restaurant, the two who will compete to produce the best menu. First, Nikki further learns that she has to deal with a visa issue, meaning that, whether or not she likes it, she has to return to Toronto for a few weeks. In inevitably running in Leo, she finds that there is still a sexual tension that exists between the two. They will have the many existing hurdles to overcome to get together, they each having to realize that they are hurdles worth overcoming, while learning some of those issues are truly non-existent.
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Stereotype Galore
Pizza Wars Deliver Good Rom Com Fun
In the Behind-the-Scenes segment of the DVD of "Little Italy," the film artists described this feel-good movie as "an old school romantic comedy with a modern twist." It was also mentioned that the original title for the film was "Pizza Wars." By the end, the audience was treated to good, wholesome entertainment wrapped in a vicarious experience of mouth-watering pizzas.
Set primarily in Toronto, the community of "Little Italy" includes competing pizza establishments. For years, there has been a running feud between the two eateries, although the owners cannot even recall the source of the conflict. In the bonus track of the DVD, the film was described as a blend of the Hatfields vs. the McCoys and the Montagues vs. the Capulets in "Romeo and Juliet."
The romance of the film was primarily in the relationship of the young people of the two rival pizza joints: Nikki and Leo. From the outset, there is never a doubt that they are deeply in love and that their love will triumph over the dissonance of their families.
The script was nicely built around a set of likable members of the two families. There was clever dialogue that kept returning to the decent values of "tradition, passion, and pride" in the making of pizzas. In the relationships, the major themes were "love, life, and cooking."
The film was especially successful in skillfully incorporating the scenes in which the delicious pizza was made along with the romantic narrative. Perhaps the most imaginative scene was when the pizzas were laced with "reefer" that led to a misdemeanor arrest and a wild frisking scene of the proprietors. The cast was strong with outstanding performances from the young leads.
There may have been a stretch in comparing the making of pizzas to Rocky and the "eye of the tiger." But the film was still great fun in the depiction of the two wild and wacky pizza families at war.
Remake
No one noticed that is "Pizza my Heart" remake from 2005?