My Movie Review: Valentine's Day

My Movie Review: Valentine's Day

2/5

Opening Statement: Valentine's Day explores the relationship between many different couples in a city, and the surprises and gifts that come with love through hardships and good things as well.

What's Good: It delivers its fair share of surprises, it's strictly to formula most of the time but Valentine's Day picks up half way through with some interesting outcomes in these relationship stories. Some of the morality lessons of love behind Valentines Day are appealing as well. That love in unpredictable, and if you really love someone you go through the hard stuff together, blah blah blah. It can be pretty damn cute. It does itself justice in such manner. I also loved the ensemble behind this film, the actors didn't necessarily do the best they've done, but none the less these are some fine actors/ actresses.

What's Bad: Too much to recommend this film to a general audience, taking your date to see Valentine's Day is like giving her a cheap box of chocolate that has all the normal, unsurprising flavors, and is only there to make money. A lot of this film is a big waste of talent, through the actors (some oscar-nominated),and through the people behind it. It does a good job covering up its sell-outness through its twists and turns, but it doesn't bury it completely. Maybe this film would've done much better if they kept the comedy element out of it, because not a grin, or chuckle came out of me during all these jokes, I didn't get the feeling I was suppost to during the multiple happy-endings. I didn't care about any of the characters, and at times I was very very bored. It is good try for the romantic comedy genre, but it fails on so many levels.

Consensus: Takes every different scenario and outcomes other romantic comedies have already abused and bundles it into a Valentine's gift just to make money. Valentine's Day fails in my book.