JamesG
12-09-2011, 05:53 PM
Movie Reviews: "New Year's Eve"
New Year’s Eve boasts a skillful comedy director, Garry Marshal, and an imposing cluster of stars, including:
Halle Berry
Hilary Swank
Robert De Niro
Michelle Pfeiffer
Cary Elwes
James Belushi
Penny Marshall
Matthew Broderick
Bon Jovi
Zac Efron
Ludacris
Abigail Breslin
Katherine Heigl
Josh Duhamel
Ryan Seacrest
Sarah Jessica Parker
Ashton Kutcher
and more... (Oh, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg)
In his review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert asks:
“How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do?”
Mick Lasalle in the San Francisco Chronicle wonders the same thing.
“What can be said about a movie that … has all the stars in the galaxy and all the appeal of rotting fish?”
Manohla Dargis in the New York Times says that the movie simply:
“interweaves more than a half-dozen gtrivial subplots into a cheerlessly cheery mosaic. The screenplay isn’t written so much as assembled in carefully slotted little blocks.”
To several critics it seems as if plot and performance really doesn’t matter.
According to Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe, movies like New Year’s Eve and Marshall’s previous Valentine’s Day are all about exploiting:
“our gluttony for famous people and special occasions with extra-strength celebrity overlap.”
Sara Stewart in the New York Post begins her review this way:
“If I say I don’t much care for New Year’s Eve, I risk sounding like a curmudgeon, but I have zero reservations about telling you how much I loathed New Year’s Eve, a soul-sucking monument to Hollywood greed and saccharine holiday culture.”
Linda Barnard concludes her review in the Toronto Star by voicing this wish:
“As we all link arms and sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ we hope that somewhere amid the streamers and popping champagne corks director Marshall is making a resolution to stop making these holiday-themed movies.
If he gets his hands on St. Patrick’s Day we’re done for.”
-IMDB News
New Year’s Eve boasts a skillful comedy director, Garry Marshal, and an imposing cluster of stars, including:
Halle Berry
Hilary Swank
Robert De Niro
Michelle Pfeiffer
Cary Elwes
James Belushi
Penny Marshall
Matthew Broderick
Bon Jovi
Zac Efron
Ludacris
Abigail Breslin
Katherine Heigl
Josh Duhamel
Ryan Seacrest
Sarah Jessica Parker
Ashton Kutcher
and more... (Oh, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg)
In his review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert asks:
“How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do?”
Mick Lasalle in the San Francisco Chronicle wonders the same thing.
“What can be said about a movie that … has all the stars in the galaxy and all the appeal of rotting fish?”
Manohla Dargis in the New York Times says that the movie simply:
“interweaves more than a half-dozen gtrivial subplots into a cheerlessly cheery mosaic. The screenplay isn’t written so much as assembled in carefully slotted little blocks.”
To several critics it seems as if plot and performance really doesn’t matter.
According to Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe, movies like New Year’s Eve and Marshall’s previous Valentine’s Day are all about exploiting:
“our gluttony for famous people and special occasions with extra-strength celebrity overlap.”
Sara Stewart in the New York Post begins her review this way:
“If I say I don’t much care for New Year’s Eve, I risk sounding like a curmudgeon, but I have zero reservations about telling you how much I loathed New Year’s Eve, a soul-sucking monument to Hollywood greed and saccharine holiday culture.”
Linda Barnard concludes her review in the Toronto Star by voicing this wish:
“As we all link arms and sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ we hope that somewhere amid the streamers and popping champagne corks director Marshall is making a resolution to stop making these holiday-themed movies.
If he gets his hands on St. Patrick’s Day we’re done for.”
-IMDB News