REVIEW -- 'Valentine's Day' full of love and laughs
Felicia Lockey
Issue date: 2/23/10 Section: Entertainment
"Valentine's Day" is a movie worth seeing with your sweetheart while snuggling up on a warm night. Beyond that, I would only have to recommend it for the female audience.
"Valentine's Day" showcases the many highs and lows of the day of love including cheating partners, hidden lives as a sex operator, broken engagements, a soldier mom willing to endure a fourteen hour flight only to fly back the next day to spend Valentine's Day with her son, and anti-romantics.
Although "Valentine's Day" had a dynamic cast, with A-list stars such as Ashton Kutcher, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Garner, Queen Latifah, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx, the cast itself did not act to their full potential. Jamie Foxx and Ashton Kutcher are known for their comedic ways, and that is what they should stick to because serious romantic comedy roles are not their stronger material.
Poor Anne Hathaway! Without spoiling the movie, let's just say she really increased her sex appeal in this movie.
Oh, and let's not forget about the random infamous Taylors in the movie (Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner). What the heck! So Taylor Swift decides to play the blonde role in this movie, which at times is actually pretty hilarious, but the other half of Swift's role is spent down Lautner's throat.
It's no secret the two Taylors were once romantically involved, but they really should have done more acting in the movie than portraying teenagers as sexed-crazed zombies.
One of the movies strong points, however, was the scene with Julia Roberts on the flight to America. All I can say about that was that it was pure genius. For the longest time, Roberts had the audience, including myself, wondering who the mystery person was she was going back to America to see for one night from her deployment. No one could have guessed in a million years the secret concerning the boy living with his grandparents!
Cinema 6 was packed to capacity with giggly teen-aged girls and couples waiting to end the night happily. This movie definitely played a role in ending my night happily and I would recommend it to every couple.
"Valentine's Day" showcases the many highs and lows of the day of love including cheating partners, hidden lives as a sex operator, broken engagements, a soldier mom willing to endure a fourteen hour flight only to fly back the next day to spend Valentine's Day with her son, and anti-romantics.
Although "Valentine's Day" had a dynamic cast, with A-list stars such as Ashton Kutcher, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Garner, Queen Latifah, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx, the cast itself did not act to their full potential. Jamie Foxx and Ashton Kutcher are known for their comedic ways, and that is what they should stick to because serious romantic comedy roles are not their stronger material.
Poor Anne Hathaway! Without spoiling the movie, let's just say she really increased her sex appeal in this movie.
Oh, and let's not forget about the random infamous Taylors in the movie (Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner). What the heck! So Taylor Swift decides to play the blonde role in this movie, which at times is actually pretty hilarious, but the other half of Swift's role is spent down Lautner's throat.
It's no secret the two Taylors were once romantically involved, but they really should have done more acting in the movie than portraying teenagers as sexed-crazed zombies.
One of the movies strong points, however, was the scene with Julia Roberts on the flight to America. All I can say about that was that it was pure genius. For the longest time, Roberts had the audience, including myself, wondering who the mystery person was she was going back to America to see for one night from her deployment. No one could have guessed in a million years the secret concerning the boy living with his grandparents!
Cinema 6 was packed to capacity with giggly teen-aged girls and couples waiting to end the night happily. This movie definitely played a role in ending my night happily and I would recommend it to every couple.
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Cassidy
posted 2/25/10 @ 8:15 AM EST
i hope you know that was Julia Roberts as the soldier not Sandra Bullock.
The Swift Agency
posted 2/25/10 @ 10:56 AM EST
Hello Felicia,
The actress on the transatlantic flight was Julia Roberts and not Sandra Bullock. Sandra Bullock does not appear in this movie. You should correct that. (Continued…)
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