I am going to cause a lot of controversy with this review. Everyone seems to hate this movie. All of the critics panned it. The audience reviews are really bad also. Yet I really like it a lot. Its a clone of Love Actually and Valentines Day. Knowing that going in, I knew what to expect. Its a no brainer movie. But its also romantic and sweet. True it has no sense of reality but I didn't expect that. Its an old fashioned feel good … more
From the same people who brought youValentine's Day, just in case you couldn't tell, Gerry Marshall takes another holiday that is always completely blown out of proportion, slaps together a bunch of A-listers, and creates as many shallow characters with inconsequential plot lines as possible and calls it New Year's Eve. It is the exact same movie. Want any more proof that this is the exact same movie; they cast some of the same actors and just gave them different … more
Star Rating: Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve is ostensibly a sequel to last year’s Valentine’s Day, a film I was very critical of for its surplus of subplots, overabundance of characters, and ceaseless intercutting. I described it as “a romantic comedy with Attention Deficit Disorder” and awarded it a rating of two stars. I could easily make the same argument for New Year’s Eve, and yet I feel much more forgiving this … more