Is it possible to name all of the stars in this movie. Let’s take a stab at it and see how we do. Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Patrick Dempsey, Ashton Kutcher, Eric Dane, Queen Latifah, Taylor Swift, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Topher Grace, etc. etc. I mean how in the hell do you even move beyond the cast. With this many people they should have been able to shoot cows in the picture and still make a movie. Wait a minute, George Clooney just tried that and it didn’t work out that well. No, that was goats damn it.
Valentine’s Day is a movie about, well…..Valentine’s Day. There is a dude who is in love with a girl and he asks her to marry him, she says no. Damn, did you not see that coming. He frets about town for a while delivering flowers and the next thing you know he figures out he is in love with his best friend. Now before you start freaking out, his best friend is a girl. Not that there is anything wrong with the best friend being a boy mind you, I just don’t think Hollywood would go down that path yet.
Who knows, maybe if they did this would have been a much better movie. Not that it was flat out horrible, it just wasn’t really any good. It did keep my three daughters and girlfriend occupied while I got a little shut eye, so that has to count for something. I am a guy who likes a romantic comedy most of the time. Just give me a movie with any kind of depth at all. That is all I am asking. The entire movie was about finding love in places that were right in front of you and all you had to do was open your eyes.
If I believed in that I might ask out my daughter’s school counselor and actually expect her to say yes. Then I would fall in love, get married and have more little babies living happily ever after. Shit, wait a minute. That is actually happening to me. Maybe there is something to this movie after all. I just have to go back and watch it one more time and see if I can pick out the little nuances I might have missed the first time. Well, I guess if I had nothing else in my life to do it would fall somewhere around number 185 on my list of last things.
So I saw the movie once, it was average and it is time to move on. If your girlfriend/wife/significant other happens to insist on a romantic comedy then it is tolerable to watch, but there are several movies out there I would pick over this one right now. I am just saying.
