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Title: Valentine's Day (2010)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jessica Alba | ... | Morley Clarkson | |
| Kathy Bates | ... | Susan | |
| Jessica Biel | ... | Kara Monahan | |
| Bradley Cooper | ... | Holden | |
| Eric Dane | ... | Sean Jackson | |
| Patrick Dempsey | ... | Dr. Harrison Copeland | |
| Hector Elizondo | ... | Edgar | |
| Jamie Foxx | ... | Kelvin Moore | |
| Jennifer Garner | ... | Julia Fitzpatrick | |
| Topher Grace | ... | Jason | |
| Anne Hathaway | ... | Liz | |
| Carter Jenkins | ... | Alex | |
| Ashton Kutcher | ... | Reed Bennett | |
| Queen Latifah | ... | Paula Thomas | |
| Taylor Lautner | ... | Willy | |
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter; are any worth saving? A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love; two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon; a TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA; a star quarterback contemplates his future; two strangers meet on a plane; grandparents, together for years, face a crisis; and, an "I Hate Valentine's Day" dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to. Can Cupid finish his work by midnight? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Did you read that cast list? Gives the term 'star-studded' a new meaning. Imagine what kind of film you could make with all that talent. Well, Valentine's Day is not that film. Far from it in fact. This who's who of a cast hampers any chance of real emotion due to the need to share screen time among them all. When you start getting interested in a character you'll most likely not see them again for another 45 minutes, pretty annoying when there are so few likable characters in the first place.
What is perhaps the scariest is that despite a plethora of plots, subplots and sub-subplots – all intertwining somehow – there isn't a shred of originality. Sure, you might be surprised who Bradley Cooper hooks up with at the end, but one small unforeseen twist barely counts. Bulge and fluff replace characterization and narrative development whilst the corny dialogue comes off as cutesy more than cute. It all goes back to the bloated cast: with over 20 stars that need their quota of jokes, sobs and happy endings filled, it's majorly difficult to dedicate any real time to exploring the unique intricacies of love and loss. See the far superior Love Actually for how it's done.
Saving it from complete dreadfulness is a handful of these big names – probably not the ones you would suspect – who manage to squeeze a laugh from their one-dimensional roles. The two Taylor's, Lautner and Swift, play their love-struck high school couple with a cheerful amount of tongue-in-cheek; Kutcher proves his charisma can go a long way as a heartbroken florist; and Cooper and Roberts (Julia, that is) are intriguing as plane passengers who don't know each other. Biel should hang her head in shame though, her standout woeful performance surely an early front runner for this year's Razzies.
Save your money and revisit its British counterpart on DVD instead.
1.5 out of 5 (1 - Rubbish, 2 - Ordinary, 3 - Good, 4 - Excellent, 5 - Classic)