We now divert our attention to the chick flicks of the weekend, but of course it’s no real surprise that Letters to Juliet landed gracefully in third place with Just Wright close behind. The Summit Entertainment distributed film pulled off a heavy but sweet marketing campaign, that made a few aware of Letters to Juliet for a longer time compared to Just Wright. Despite all of that marketing hoo-ha, Letters to Juliet made $13.7 Million while Just Wright wrangled in $8.5 Million. Continue reading on to check out the rest of the totals below from Box Office Mojo.:

Weekend Box Office (May 14-16)

1. Iron Man 2  ($53 M)
2. Robin Hood  ($37.1 M)
3. Letters to Juliet  ($13.7 M)
4. Just Wright  ($8.5 M)
5. How to Train Your Dragon  ($5.1 M)
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street  ($4.7 M)
7. Date Night  ($4 M)
8. The Back-Up Plan  ($2.4 M)
9. Furry Vengeance  ($2.3 M)
10. Clash of the Titans  ($1.2 M)

It’s time to bring in more action for the next weekend as the SNL skit-turned-feature film MacGruber comes out this Friday. DreamWorks Animation pulls out the big guns with the IMAX 3D and regular theater release of Shrek The Final Chapter. Following those two, are the limited releases of 180 South: Conquerors of the Useless and Racing Dreams.

We’ve seen the story before, second chances at love in different shapes and forms that inspire us to get all warm-hearted. This romantic comedy follows the same formula with Sophie (Seyfried) who travels to Verona, Italy with her fiance (Gael García Bernal) who’s out of the picture a majority of the film due to a constant swing of ignoring his love. Bernal is, unfortunately, the most under-used; immediately shoved to the side as the would-be road block in order to make the budding romance between Sophie and Charlie (Christopher Egan) a lot easier to get to. Seyfried completely plays up the cute and determined young woman with a heart of gold to the core which works the most whenever she’s sharing screen time with Egan. His entertaining portrayal of the stubborn but soft-hearted Charlie passes, along with his striking features, enough to make the women in the audience sigh wishing they were Sophie.

In this case, the main love story between the two isn’t the most engaging but Claire’s (Vanessa Redgrave) quest for her long-lost love Lorenzo (Franco Nero, Django) gives you that flutter in your heart of hope. Redgrave shows off her solid skills in front of the camera and whisks away the audience anytime she appears.

Gary Winick handles the overly mushy chick flick material well enough to translate the heart melting script from the pages to the big screen. Tim Sullivan and Jose Rivera’s script is rather predictable to a fault all the way to a point where it’s easy to figure out all that would happen within the first fifteen minutes of the story. Then again when you have mainly fine performances and a gorgeous back drop of a foreign country completely enveloping you throughout the film, it’s forgivable. Letters to Juliet is the latest notch in a collection of romantic comedies or “chick flicks” that will easily sweep it’s demographic off it’s feet. If you want that warm and fuzzy feeling again from those true love tales you read and watch so much on, this is right up your alley.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars