There's a great movie idea in the concept that the gods are still alive in the Twentieth Century, but unless you find roles for all the gods of the cultures, it's just not going to work. Vanna White makes a beautiful Aphrodite aka Venus, but she has a lousy script, and a plot that wanders around and gets lost. For a goddess, she's more of a dim bulb as she blindly pursues David Naughton. David Leisure plays a fair comic relief, but one major problem in this script stolen from Manniquin (at least that movie had Egyptian Gods), is it just isn't believable. If Vanna's going to play a goddess, she needs to convince us that she is one of the creators of the world and less of a blonde air-head just discovering the mortal world, I mean, just where was her spirit while civilization was advancing around her stone body ? At times, she also seems surprised at what she can do, and other times the direction just makes her look foolish. Why she does half the things in this film are beyond me, but if I had made this movie, I would have leaned more to fantasy and less to comedy. This film as it is just makes me shudder. I could create a much more better version with Reese Witherspoon and Breckin Meyer in the main roles!
Review of Goddess of Love
