Welcome to Mama's

2/28/2022

Lovely storyline mixing love of family, food and traditions, but falls a little flat in the Romance department. Although there's a mutual attraction between the two lead characters, there's no real chemistry. There was more affection shared between long time friends and colleagues Frank and Sal in the kitchen. The two main characters butt heads too often and settle for compromise more so than agree with the other when it comes to how to run the restaurant. Throughout the movie connections between Mama and Papa Tucci's loving relationship in the past are used to jumpstart or smooth over the roughness in Frank and Amy's current relationship. Which was a nice concept if you're trying to make a business work, because it did. But romantically it wasn't enough for me to believe that Amy and Fran