Posted by Joe Wilhelm | Posted in Ashton Kutcher , Garry Marshall , Jessica Alba , movie reviews , movies , Patrick Dempsey , Valentine's Day | Posted on 8:36 AM
Sometimes gimmick movies pay off. In the case of Valentine's Day, it paid off 52.1 million times opening day weekend. That's a number surely to drop off dramatically going into week two. I should not need to mention what gimmick here is being a movie called Valentine's Day that was released on valentine's day weekend. Oops just did. The obvious target audience here is the romantic types to take their significant others to watch this film. Being that be the case is why Spencer and I are reviewing this film since my wife and his girlfriend desired to see this.
Director Garry Marshall threw in a mesh mash of intersecting storylines that one way in another link into each other. I heard a lot of comparisons to Love, Actually tossed around however I haven't seen that film to comment on or confirm that. Even though a movie like this would mainly just consider all the actors as supporting cast like an ensemble, Ashton Kutcher's floral shop owner Reed Bennett seems to get the most of the focus. As his storyline progresses, one by one the others develop within some way.
The writing is really weak and transparent that you can guess where most of the subplots are going to end, minus a couple surprises, within a few on-screen minutes. Marshall tries to jam all types of relationships into this for diversity that it seems to dilute the film's integrity. Thrown in is everything from the teenage couple to the newly engaged couple to the senior couple. Not to mention the interracial and gay couple to just name a few. This film could have had more substance if less couples were introduced and more time was spent focusing on the others.
The film features too many big name actors to list them all, so I won't but personally even though he was mixed in for diversity purposes, George Lopez was most likely my favorite character here. On the other end of the spectrum, Jessica Alba was most least liked character.
Then again, she was given much screen time for viewers to relate to her character and understand her motives. For you women out there, you get McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey) and McSteamy (Eric Dane). For us guys, we get my three favorite J's, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, and Jennifer Garner. My wife even got a little fidgety in her seat and got all excited for Dane's first screen appearance.
Overall I'm just going to take in this movie for what it is meant to be, a date movie to enjoy with my wife on Valentine's day.
Director Garry Marshall threw in a mesh mash of intersecting storylines that one way in another link into each other. I heard a lot of comparisons to Love, Actually tossed around however I haven't seen that film to comment on or confirm that. Even though a movie like this would mainly just consider all the actors as supporting cast like an ensemble, Ashton Kutcher's floral shop owner Reed Bennett seems to get the most of the focus. As his storyline progresses, one by one the others develop within some way.
The writing is really weak and transparent that you can guess where most of the subplots are going to end, minus a couple surprises, within a few on-screen minutes. Marshall tries to jam all types of relationships into this for diversity that it seems to dilute the film's integrity. Thrown in is everything from the teenage couple to the newly engaged couple to the senior couple. Not to mention the interracial and gay couple to just name a few. This film could have had more substance if less couples were introduced and more time was spent focusing on the others.
The film features too many big name actors to list them all, so I won't but personally even though he was mixed in for diversity purposes, George Lopez was most likely my favorite character here. On the other end of the spectrum, Jessica Alba was most least liked character.
Then again, she was given much screen time for viewers to relate to her character and understand her motives. For you women out there, you get McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey) and McSteamy (Eric Dane). For us guys, we get my three favorite J's, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, and Jennifer Garner. My wife even got a little fidgety in her seat and got all excited for Dane's first screen appearance.
Overall I'm just going to take in this movie for what it is meant to be, a date movie to enjoy with my wife on Valentine's day.
On a side note to my fellow reviewer Veer on this site, there's a Bollywood dance scene thrown in here as well.
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