Valentine's Day (2010)
Genre: Romance / Comedy
Duration: 125 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner and Jessica Biel
IMDb score:
5,8 (130.352)
Releasedate: 10 February 2010
Valentine's Day plot
"A Love Story. More or Less."
Several stories are told at the time of Valentine's Day. The people are all from Los Angeles and are struggling one by one with love problems. The pressure that Valentine's Day puts on them turns out to be beneficial for some, disadvantageous for others. Among the characters are a naval officer (Julia Roberts) who flees from Iraq to Los Angeles for her lover, a gay man (Bradley Cooper) who is in love with a football player (Eric Dane) who is afraid to reveal his sexuality, a florist (Ashton Kutcher) who, after proposing to his girlfriend (Jessica Alba), discovers that he is in love with another woman (Jennifer Garner), a married man (Patrick Dempsey) who is having an affair with this other woman, an older woman (Shirley MacLaine) who admits to her husband (Hector Elizondo) that she has had a lover in the past, an assistant (Anne Hathaway) to the world's greatest talent hunter who falls in love with a colleague (Topher Grace), a publicist (Jessica Biel) who can't find a date and a teenager (Emma Roberts) who is considering going to bed with her boyfriend (Carter Jenkins) for the first time.
Actors and actresses
Captain Kate Hazeltine
Holden Wilson
Liz Curran
Felicia Miller
Dr. Harrison Copeland
Sean Jackson
Grace Smart
Kara Monahan
Edgar Paddington
Morley Clarkson
Reviews & comments
IH88
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- 9761 messages
- 3190 votes
Valentine's Day
Nice little one. It is all predictable and there is no question of originality in the various storylines. Fortunately, the actors know what to make of it and it is certainly not an annoying sit. It's a real feel-good movie, and Valentine's Day does just fine in that respect. Love is all around...
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Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
Very mediocre.
Like most of these kind of themed ensemble films actually. They are rarely successful, but it is of course easy to watch around the period for which they are intended. That's why we also looked this Valentine's Day. Marshall is certainly someone who likes the concept, since his last three films are all basically the same.
There's already a lot going wrong with the casting here. Many well-known names, but not really nice actors and almost all of them typecast. The excess of stories is also quite annoying here, so each piece gets very little playing time, on the other hand the emotional course of all stories is almost identical, so that you are almost watching a kind of bad omnibus film.
And if you hope for some nice overlap between the stories, you will also be disappointed. Nah, this was a very mediocre affair. Fortunately for this type of film it is still relatively short, although that does mean that everything feels very rushed and there is barely time for a romantic impact. Nah, this isn't really my thing.
1.5*
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
meaningless.
A rather simple romcom that clearly doesn't want to be simple. At least, I think so, because the set-up calls for a reasonably well thought-out approach, but the film seems to fail miserably or not even try at all. What remains is a fairly dry film that wants a lot but achieves little.
Valentine's Day has a huge star cast, say the amount that also show up in Avengers movies. Almost everyone who walks around here is a familiar face, but only a few know how to make something of it. I think a lot of them just play for the paycheck, because they don't put a lot of effort.
Hathaway, Biel, Grace and Garner are actually the only 4 people who really know how to make some of their roles. The rest act quite limited, or come into view very limited. Roles such as those of Cooper, Roberts, Swift or Lautner, what are they actually doing here? They only show up for 5-10 minutes, you wonder why these characters need to be added at all. Probably to get that extra pair of eyes, but it doesn't feel exactly satisfying.
Furthermore, the film is also classically directed and does not surprise anywhere, nor does it feel really sweet or cute. The film gives quite a spoiled impression that does not benefit the end result. It didn't warm me up when the movie ended, while Marshall is clearly going for it.
Fortunately, it all still looks a bit smooth, but I wasn't really crazy about it. Valentine's Day is a movie that you will probably remember only because of the large star cast that plays along. The story really should have been a bit more surprising and the actors more motivated. Fortunately, it is still well-intentioned with some nice roles and a brisk pace, but that's where it ends.
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