Valentines Day is a movie not unlike many other recent chick flick’s that involve multiple characters in one setting all sharing the same day and struggles together. It’s cute, somewhat funny, very colorful, and has all the likeable and unlikeable characters. The largest problem that faces this movie is that it lacks any trace of an intelligent story. Unlike a film like Love, Actually that also revolves around many characters facing similar ups and downs; Valentines Day just seems to be a series of shorts that are either extremely dull or extremely pointless. Every story is predictable from beginning to end with its repetitive nature. Every story is either about the lovesick character that loves Valentines Day and they fall out of love and back in love by the end or about the single character that hates Valentines day and by the end of the movie finds the beauty in the day. Garry Marshall presents this film like this holiday deserves as much credit as Christmas or Thanksgiving. Every character give’s his or her regular ole’ generic character. Brad Cooper, Julia Roberts, Jamie Foxx, Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, and Jessica Alba all play themselves while Jennifer Garner, Patrick Dempsy, Jessica Beil, George Lopez, and Anne Hathaway give the usual less than stellar performance at trying to be funny, loveable or hated. Throw Taylor Launter, Taylor Swift and another stupid story about high school and you sum up the worth of this movie. Shirly Maclaine and Hector Elizondo are really the only standouts when it comes to acting and they have the shortest amount of screen time. This movie does provide a few laughs and can be a good date movie if you are really bored. Overall, there are many other less than perfect chick flicks out there that you dust off (any 90s Meg Ryan movie) if you are trying to avoid this movie.
3.4/10
-Zack Tinsley
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