“From Italy with Amore” is like pasta your native Olive Backyard left standing in water in a single day.

It’s shapeless, tasteless, inedible goo, and about as Italian as Chico Marx.

The “Italy” here’s a “we make our personal pasta for our ‘genuine’ delicacies” eatery, apparently a novelty in Edmunton, Alberta.

That’s the unnamed setting, a metropolis that presents itself as too beautiful to deserve internet hosting the blandest romance ever filmed on that facet of the border.

Ariel (Rebecca Dalton) is a options author for {a magazine}/web site named “Glow,” a profession lady who’s lovelorn however who has her superb in thoughts.

“Six toes tall, sturdy construct, chiseled” options, with “good eyes, a radiant smile.” And he ought to “drive a yellow sports activities automotive.”

That’s what Mr. Should-Be-Proper pulls up within the second she mentions this record to bestie Jules (Kara Duncan), who kidnapped her from the workplace for lunch on her birthday.

So the hunk with mannequin beauty (Brendan Morgan) must be made for her. And the great wanting co-owner of Vicky’s Bistro, Daniel (Marcus Rosner) barely deserves a second look.

Jules notices him, however Ariel mermaids proper previous the man serving them to the man he’s giving an espresso. To place herself in yellow sports activities automotive Jamie’s field of regard, she’ll have to indicate up at Vicky’s Bistro, day after day, because it soft-reopens earlier than Daniel and his chef brother Tony (Stafford Perry), homosexual and eventually near adopting a child along with his husband, stage their grand re-opening.

Perhaps if she pitches an “Italian consolation meals” function to her “mst widespread wellness journal within the nation” editor, she’ll kill two birds with one stone, and get the large promotion at work as well.

That throws our blonde reporter along with the cuisine-championing, market-visiting, household enterprise man Daniel, who’s smitten however whom Ariel must shrink back from as a result of Jules is , and moreover, Ariel’s superb has that yellow sports activities automotive.

I imply, she “manifested” her “superb man.” Who’s she to argue with the universe?

The cooking is de-emphasized, so the “Italy” come-on within the movie’s title is just about a complete bait and swap. The delicacies we glimpse is underwhelming.

The leads are bland, the “chemistry” has no warmth to it and the conditions, all the way in which right down to the homosexual couple who wants Tony and Daniel’s restaurant to succeed over the chain joint throughout the way in which (“The Olive Department,” cute) so as to have the ability to undertake, are tepid.

This clunker is about as appetizing as a can of Chef Boyardee, and simply as attractive as it’s appetizing.

Perhaps subsequent time you’re making a film in under-filmed Edmunton, you make one thing out of it, give it a little bit native colour. Edmunton deserves higher.

Score: TV-PG

Solid: Rebecca Dalton, Marcus Rosner, Kara Duncan, Stafford Perry, Brendan Morgan and Daybreak Ford

Credit: Directed by Dylan Pearce, scripted by Katy Breier and Erica Deutschman. A Freevee/Amazon Prime launch.

Operating time: 1:24