Valentine's Day Movie Reviews

The florist, Ashton Kutcher, hopes to sell all the roses in his shop as he begins the day on a high note. He's just proposed to his partner, Jessica Alba, and she's nodded a yes. Does he manage to make record business on V-Day or are there too many achy-breaky hearts going around...The film unfolds like a collage of sundry stories about different people who meet, mate or fall apart before the sun sets on the all-important day.

An all-star ensemble cast is the mainstay of this irksome ode to lovesick souls in Los Angeles. Clearly, an assembly-line product with more flash and froth than flesh and blood. As with his previous movies, Marshall (Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride) is overly sentimental. The cliché-clogged script introduces us to a dozen characters. Consequently, the limited time spent with each of them, leading to monotony.

Valentine’s Day has infinite big actors playing innumerable irrelevant characters, disinteresting multiple tracks forcibly intertwined into each other, a hundred clichéd love problems of a million Los Angelinos and truckloads of preachy lectures on love... all put on a display in one day’s time. You’ll find almost everything in abundance in the movie Valentine’s Day except for that one crucial thing that should have ideally been in the movie the most – LOVE in its simplest form.

Valentine's Day is a film so manufactured that you can almost hear the conversation in the studio boardroom as you watch it. Presumably one executive said to another, lets get Pretty Woman director Gary Marshall, construct several multi-generational romantic plot lines that tug at your heart in the most obvious, cheesy way, cram in as many stars for as little time as possible so the budget stays under control and voila, you've got the perfect bonbon for Valentine's day.

It must take a special kind of talent to make a film as bad as Valentine's Day. This alleged romantic comedy from Pretty Woman director Garry Marshal features an all-star cast of Hollywood's brightest actors, and yet manages to waste every single one of them in dull, thankless roles. Opening on the morning of February 14 in Los Angeles, this film follows 21-or-so characters as they live out every romantic-movie cliché you can think of over the course of one full day.