Mai scherzare con le stelle

Mai scherzare con le stelle ticks all the boxes for its genre.

Ines is involved in an ongoing feud with her downstairs neighbour, Alfredo. For reasons that will be revealed when you watch the film, she unexpectedly has to turn to him for help.

You can no doubt guess the outcome.

It is, however, quite a solid story, though many of the scenes are incredibly contrived. There is, of course, a love rival for Alfredo's attention, Erika, and here is one of the film's issues. She doesn't appear to have a bad bone in her body. And one is left lamenting as to why she has to get dealt such a rotten hand.

If you come across this made for TV film, probably on Netflix, overall it's not a bad way to spend 100 minutes, but I just couldn't quite bring myself to give it a 6, it's a 5.5 out of 10.