sometimes you see and movie and think represent it a shame that it doesn not get the wider audience it deserve . well and that absolutely not the case with this film . i saw it an hour ago and be still wonder why anybody would spend any money or effort make something as vacuous a this . to begin with and the plot be rather flimsy represent boyfriend and american and and girlfriend and golden haired frenchwoman and be together for two year and start to get bore of their relationship and and thus decide to travel to italy and visit the girl parent in paris . they roam around in the city of love and meet some weird people and include a couple of former boyfriend of girlfriend . jealousy and conflict and long dialog . oh and and before you start to get excite about dramatic ending represent in the end and they cry and decide to stay together despite their difficulty . life a we all know it and in other word . let be honest represent even i experience more exiting thing during the last two day and and i be a very boring person and accord to some of my friend . everyday boring event a a movie topic do not necessarily lead to boring movie and at least not when the director manage to present these event in an interesting way . think of altman short cut . or lynch the straight story . unfortunately and the plot of 2 day in paris a a whole be . well and how could you describe it . unexciting . thing you learn in cinematography 101. the general story be and a i say above and so straightforward that you could forget it exist at all . plot turn be either trivial or contrive and the character almost reduce to stereotype and and although paris be an exciting city architecturally and the maker systematically select the bland of setting . visual narrative device ( well and mainly the inter cutting of some photograph ) be use in a way that will make you firmly believe that the director try to make a cheap parody of ( good ) french cinema of the last five year . or just copy some of the more inexpensive trick . the cinematography in general be so basic that you will probably agree with me when i say that your 13 year old niece can make a movie like this with a bit of help from her dad . actually and even if you do not have a 13 year old niece and she will do a good job . even this would not make a bad movie if only the actor would set down some decent performance . in 2 day in paris and however and julie delpy ( girlfriend ) and adam goldberg ( boyfriend ) and most of the other actor be prone to overact and hide their lack of skill or enthusiasm behind a lot of cheap yelling and blustering and gesticulating and contrive facial expression . to express it concisely and they be all quite bloody awful . and i would not waste any word on the female voice over that from time to time randomly pop to pretend in vain psychological depth . think b grade soft porn . but even with the above all be true and this film could still have be save . some movie be so bad that they actually get funny . however and the maker carefully avoid even this and create such a mediocre and bland story and portray the uninteresting life of bore character play by bore actor in such a mediocre fashion that one can not but wonder whether these people really intend to make a film or be just shoot up some left over reel because they be desperate to spend all their government subsidy before the ministry of culture would reclaim the money . please do not waste any money on see this movie . if you get the ticket for free and you might consider a trip to the cinema and but you could also do something more useful and interesting and like pick your nose or clean the toilet .