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.
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
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
