Love & Gelato

bella_nicole42 shared a tip "2/10 what the cinnamon toast frick was that? I am revolted and my day is ruined. I absolutely adored the book and whoever wrote this movie must have just read the goodreads summary of the plot because this was atrocious. The only thing that I liked were some of the landscape shots of Italy, which is hard to mess up because Italy is gorgeous."

melly_loveee shared a tip "So to start off I thought Lina was very cringey at first and just straight up awkward and that was making me dislike her, but in the end she ended up getting my respect with her choice on what she knew was best for her. I found myself rooting for Ales but then after a bit he just got annoying and then Lorenzo I didn’t like him at first but towards the end he got on my good side. Overall the movie’s way of ending won me over so it is worth a watch."

Griffin17 shared a tip "I was all excited to watch this with my mum and then we found a trailer that just showed you the whole movie. The acting is so bad."

justmanderz shared a tip "Let me start off by saying I REALLY wanted to like this movie. I just finished the novel, and I couldn’t wait to see the story pan out on the screen. However, I was pretty disappointed in how the film portrayed the book (and I hate the book snobs that always say that). This film was barely even a skeleton of the story written on the page. Characters were changed, the setting is completely different, the journal was not even remotely similar…even the message behind the book wasn’t portrayed in the film. I will say that the acting was done well and the scenery was beautiful. I tried to separate the book and film as two separate entities, but I just can’t get over how the whole storyline was put through the shredder."

emily98 shared a tip "Was a good movie. Defianlty a nice film if you want to see Italy. Though at times the writing and choices that were made were questionable. Could have been a bit better with the writing. But overall defianlty recommend the film"

carissa_santos shared a tip "They changed way too much from the book and some of the acting was questionable at best. It gave it a completely different feel than the book had. Do yourself a favor and read the book instead."

candance shared a tip "When watching a book to movie adaptation, I always try to separate the book from the movie and not expect them to be identical, but this movie was unnecessarily, completely different from the book. The script was awkward, the acting was fine, the pacing was slow. I’m easily entertained when it comes to rom-coms but this movie was not enjoyable in the slightest for me."

eli.hannah shared a tip "GENUINELY THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. ruined my day, week, month. i don’t know if i’ll ever get past this. what a disrespect to the amazing novel."

stephanie_martin_pr shared a tip "This had potential - but the acting was bad, little chemistry between the actors, and the story was not well executed. It was just a downer the whole time. Honestly, I would have rather watched “When in Rome” with the Olsen Twins."

mallory_9402 shared a tip "Love and Gelato is one of the better book to movie adaptations that have been produced. It allows for viewers who are interested in reading the full story to enjoy a laid back movie while the book lovers get genuine moments with their favorite characters."

isabella_lascialfare shared a tip "Ok..I know I am a little late on this, but has anyone seen Love and Gelato on Netflix yet?! Also..Has anyone read the book?! So I read the book and I LOVED it so I was really excited about the movie!! Then I saw the movie..why? In my opinion, they changed the ENTIRE thing(and not for the better)…Thoughts?.. #romcom #netflixoriginal #italy"

madi_mcerlean shared a tip "it was cringe. so bad compared to the books. i hope love and luck and love and olives don’t make it to the big screen. they deserve much better. the acting was also terrible."

mary_keith_5493 shared a tip "Literally so bad. I went in super excited to watch it because I loveddddd the book and was extremely let down. Cringey is a nice way to put it and the amount of second hand embarrassment I got should be illegal. A complete 180 from the book and in no way enjoyable. The acting was truly foul and Lina was a complete different person than she was in the book as was Ren. I hated this. I really wanted to love it but it was just so painfully bad. A hard no for me. Just read the book. It’s way better."

laurenkars shared a tip "This movie was nothing like the book at all, maybe 15% of the movie is very loosely based on it. The most atrocious part was her hair at the end. Between it being in the wrong location and then making up a new character (ale) I rate this movie a 2/5."

abby_betts1 shared a tip "I don’t understand why they changed so many aspects of the book. It should have taken place in Florence, the scene between Lina and her father was a let-down, Alessandro I guess is Thomas with a lot more screen time? All in all, I was very disappointed. I visibly cringed/suffered from secondhand embarrassment several times in the film. Wouldn’t rewatch."

jonajo shared a tip "I feel angry on behalf of the author of the book, netflix butchered this story. A beautiful story of a headstrong athletic girl finding herself, a family, and a love for italy reduced to a tropey awful mess of a film. To try and write a love triangle into it and then release it the same time as The Summer I Turned Pretty? What a disaster. I can’t articulate how upsetting it was that they destroyed the endearing characters of the book and replaced them with what’s essentially puppetry. Undeserved."

lindsay_sharpe shared a tip "I’ll say I kind of liked this movie but they changed a lot from the book and I loved loved loved the book, so I’m a little disappointment.  One of the main characters is technically in the book but has a totally different name in the movie. Just be prepared to have the expectation that it’s not going to be like the book"