Valentine's Day Movie

Valentine’s Day Movie

Review

Valentine’s Day’s shameless commercialism continues with its yearly visits of absurdity. One day in the year gets dedicated to that special someone you love. This year, however, it has also brought a star studded romantic comedy by the same name.

The movie follows a flimsy plotline and tries to squeeze in as much star power as it can without actually using any of it. It feels as if a movie exec decided to jump on the Valentine’s Day band wagon and cash in on another day when people blindly spend money they don’t have.

There are a few small laughs provided by a ditsy Taylor Swift, a raunchy Anne Hathaway along with the ever poised Julia Roberts but never takes it further.

Although the love fest will be pelted by critics everywhere it will make the perfect date movie for Valentine’s Day. Most of the audience will be too absorbed in their lover’s eyes to notice that they’ve paid to watch countless clichés rolled into two hours of dull film.

Synopsis

An all-star ensemble cast comes together in "Valentine's Day," which follows the intertwining storylines of a diverse group of Los Angelenos as they navigate their way through romance and heartbreak over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love. Directed by veteran filmmaker Garry Marshall, the film stars Jessica Alba ("Fantastic Four"), Academy Award® winner Kathy Bates ("Misery"), Jessica Biel ("I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry"), Bradley Cooper ("The Hangover"), Eric Dane (TV's "Grey's Anatomy"), Patrick Dempsey ("Enchanted"), Hector Elizondo (the "Princess Diaries" films), Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx ("Ray"), Jennifer Garner ("Juno"), Topher Grace ("Spider-Man 3"), Academy Award® nominee Anne Hathaway ("Rachel Getting Married"), Ashton Kutcher ("What Happens in Vegas"), Academy Award® nominee Queen Latifah ("Chicago"), Taylor Lautner ("The Twilight Saga: New Moon"), George Lopez ("Beverly Hills Chihuahua"), Academy Award® winner Shirley MacLaine ("Terms of Endearment"), Emma Roberts ("Hotel for Dogs"), Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts ("Erin Brockovich") and award-winning singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, in her feature film debut. Marshall directed "Valentine's Day" from a screenplay by Katherine Fugate, story by Fugate and Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein. The film is produced by Mike Karz and Wayne Rice, with Toby Emmerich, Samuel J. Brown, Michael Disco, Diana Pokorny and Josie Rosen serving as executive producers. The behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Charles Minsky, production designer Albert Brenner, editor Bruce Green, costume designer Gary Jones and composer John Debney. New Line Cinema presents, a Wayne Rice/Karz Entertainment Production, a Garry Marshall Film, "Valentine's Day," to be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. --© Warner Bros

Release Date

Feb 12, 2010

Cast

Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift

Age Restriction

PG-13 (USA); 10 MLS (SA)

Director

Garry Marshall

Producers

Mike Karz, Wayne Rice

Trailer

Tags: Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Emma Roberts, Eric Dane, Garry Marshall, George Lopez, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Julia Roberts, Kathy Bates, Mike Karz, Patrick Dempsey, Queen Latifah, Shirley MacLaine, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Swift, Topher Grace, Valentine's Day, Wayne Rice

Nicole Megan Hoskins

I know this is a late reply but I did go see the movie, not on valentines day but nevertheless.

I found glimpses of the movie to be very special, The story between Julia Roberts character and the man on the plane definitely left me wondering where it was going. I was happy with the way those pieces fitted together right at the end.

Unfortunately I found the scenes with the twilight star and Taylor Swift very badly done. It was a bad attempt to bring comedy to the film and the story-line was very straight forward and limited.

Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner saved this movie and made it one that I may actually watch again, even though it seemed like a re-write of the british movie Love Actually(and didnt live up to it).
It was light and enjoyable nonetheless