Cast: Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper, Patrick Dempsey, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Eric Dane, Jamie Foxx, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner... my fingers are already getting tired... and more!
Valentine's Day is exactly what you expect. An easy love conquers all approach to the mine field that is a Hallmark created non-holiday, set to either annoy you terribly, or make you sigh and giggle. It annoyed me terribly.
I went to the movie expecting to not like it very much. It is the kind of movie I go to so I can escape the real world, and come back out liking it much more than the sloppy over dramatised crap that Hollywood sells as RomComs these days.
Basically, you have a lot of story lines played by a lot of well respected (and not so well respected... I am looking at you Taylor and Taylor) actors and actresses, which all have issues surrounding this one day of the year in some form or another. The biggest fail was the really unimaginative story lines that we have seen over and over again, and a stupid attempt to copy the boy from Love Actually - that kid is gorgeous and no one can trump him! The highlights were the unexpected story lines that rang true a little, or actually made you (shock horror) relate to a character that is not a cardboard cutout stereotype.
My love goes to Eric Dane, Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts, Topher Grace and Anne Hathaway (just for the accents), oh, and Jennifer Garner in that one scene as a waitress... ball-breaking never was played with such finesse!
My hate goes to the younger element of the cast (why were they even in the movie) and Ashton Kutcher - I cannot stand that guy.
Everyone else gets a standard RomCom pass.
To the writer, Katherine Fugate, might I suggest that you try and not make too many story lines next time. Cut the crap ones so the good ones can be fleshed out a little bit more so you don't think you are being shown flashcards instead of a movie. Just because you have a director that can call in RomCom favours from all over Hollywood does not mean that you have to give parts to every one of them.
I agree with the reviewer from IMDB, save your money, watch Love Actually again instead!
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