New Year's Eve Review

Merry Christmas and a boring, long and drawn out New Year’s Eve, but don’t worry it’s packed full of celebrities.

 

This semi, sorta, kinda, sequel to last year’s Valentine’s Day has all the last film had but, more, lots more. The last film spent 10 to 20 minutes of screen time on each story segment, director Gary Marshall felt that was too much. So this time each story gets somewhere between 5 to 10 minutes but, don’t worry the movie is still 2 hours long. There is just a lot more characters, which means a lot more b list actors. I know a lot of you hate me, how can I call Zac Efron, Halle Berry, Cary Elwes, Common, Alyssa Milano, Jessica Biel, Seth Meyers, Jon Bon Jovi, Sofía Vergara, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, James Belushi, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Josh Duhamel, Joey McIntyre, Ludacris, Hector Elizondo, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer B list actors? Well simple they are, yes a few of them are great actors, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer just to name 2 but when is the last time any of them drew a crowd on their own? EXACTLY

You want to know what is so bad about this movie? All those names above their not cameos, each of those actors play a main role, so each and every one of them has nothing to work with nothing to develop. In other words you feel nothing for any of them at any point, I mean De Niro is playing a dying man for all of 4 minutes. Am I supposed to care? Berry plays his loving nurse, how deep. Except it’s not, it’s not given any time to be deep it plays like a State Farm ad. And the best part of the performances everyone delivers when you have over 4 Oscar winning actors in your film and the best performance comes from Bon Jovi something is wrong deeply wrong.

The film is about 193 people all trying to have a good New Year’s Eve, one is a single mother another is a angry comic artist. The rest is all the same cookie cutter characters you seen in Wal-Mart ads, they just look hotter much hotter

The problem is the film is boring really boring it’s not funny its long and kinda sad, when I left the theater the guy next to me said the funniest part of the movie was the outtakes during the credits. That says everything you need to know about this film, the credits is the best part. The worst part is having to suffer through the chick from Glee singing I understand she is on a popular show about singing but if she could really sing she would be famous for singing not being on a crappy show about singing.

When Katherine Heigl got her big screen break in Knocked Up I liked her a lot, then she made 27 Dresses and I thought she was the next Meg Ryan I thought she would own the romantic comedy genre. Well that was then this is now, and right now I wish she would get knocked up and take a year off, and with any luck come back to make at least one more good movie before she fades in to obscurity .

Bottom line is this movie will make money and everyone who sees it will kind of like it because of the credits. So that’s what you need to decide this week, do you want to see a good movie or a long, boring, stupid movie with funny end credits? I know my answer