Valentine's Day (2010)

Simply A Masterpiece

Load of rubbish!!

Great Film overall

Good start, but then it gets ruined

First of all the reason I wanted to watch this movie because of the great line up of cast. Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx and loads more. Why wouldn't you watch this movie right? Well that was clearly a mistake and the longest hour and a half ever! I am going to now give you 3 reason to stay clear of this movie 1. Anne Hathaway is personally one of my favorite actresses. She is great in movies such as Princess Diaries, Devil wears Prada and many more. But in this movie I felt like her talents were discarded completely. Also her character was not suited to her at all. 2.Taylor Swift is a great performer on stage but not on the acting stage.I think that she should just stay singing. She is a terrible actress except for her role in the Lorax. She had no skills and it looked like through the entire movie she was reading off of cue cards behind the camera. 3. The story line is so weird. I personally didn't like this movie because of the main reason the story line. If you do ever watch this movie ( and why would you?!) you will know what I am taking about. It had no point what so ever and made no sense at all.So there you have it the worst movie ever.

Valentine's Day is a brutal movie with a very poorly developed storyline and a star studded cast that sadly aren't enough to make this any bit more watchable. It has some good moments, the part at the end with Julia Roberts is nice and the scenes between Hector Elizondo and Shirley MacLaine are very well acted, but any sort of joy and sympathy these scenes bring us are destroyed by the many endless, predictable and boring ones. Every story in this would have been better if they were there own movie, Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Biel's story could have been good as a solo movie and Jamie Foxx's story definitely could have made for an original romantic comedy, but when we put all these stories together we never get to see as much as we could with any, all the characters are very underdeveloped, we forget about most of them when they aren't shown for a while, and other stories literally go nowhere, the characters are in the same position that they were at the start of the film (such as Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner's parts), which is completely pointless. There are also some offensive moments in this film, some parts are quite racist, there are some homophobic jokes made towards the end and it's portrayal of both men and women is generally very typical. I did not have a good time watching this movie, and unless you love romantic comedies no matter what, I would not recommend Valentine's Day. The lives of several couples and singles collide when they make up and break up during Valentine's Day. Best Performance: Hector Elizondo Worst Performance: Jessica Alba

Garry Marshall has proved time and time again that he knows his way around a romantic comedy but even for him telling 8 or 9 is a big ask. And it's the task he sets himself with this Valentine's Day themed film.The comparisons with Love Actually are inevitable and well deserved. The formula is the same. However, Marshall does try to tell some interesting and varied stories and in many cases succeeds. However I felt that too many of them didn't work and too much /too little time was dedicated to them.It has its moments but for me (and I'm aware it's not a popular opinion) I prefer Marshall's sort of follow up 'New Years Eve'.

I actually liked this quite a bit. It was clever how every single story line was connected (and there are a ton of them). There's also a couple of huge surprises towards the end that I definitely didn't see coming, but on that note the audience is deliberately steered in different directions. All round cute, feel-good movie with a ton of big name stars all revolving around, yup Valentines day.Patrick Dempsey is essentially his 'Greys Anatomy' character, Jessica Alba is funny, Taylor Swift impressed me -also quite funny, Taylor Lautner is embarrassed to take his shirt off in public and very athletic, Jennifer Garner knows how to swing a baseball bat, Julia Roberts is not annoying with a shout out to 'Pretty Woman', Ashton Kutcher plays a large role, nothing remarkable, Jamie Fox is wasted in another role and seemed kind of lost, and Eric Dane... that look his character gives to his valentine after the press conference, just melted me.Yeah, I'll probably watch this again the next time I catch it on TV, much like how I always get sucked into 'Love Actually'. 05.13