Film Review – Valentines day
I took Marla to see “Valentines day” last night. A day late but the baby sitter was not available on Sunday. Here are my thoughts on the film.
Valentines day is a multi-threaded romantic comedy set in LA on Valentines day 2011. Multi-threaded, because it deals with a whole lot of seemingly unrelated people that all are connected somehow. Romantic, because almost everybody ends up kissing someone, and Comedy because the out-takes were very funny.
Remember “Love Actually”? Well it was just like that but without the Christmas or the funny. I can remember copious bits of humour from “Love Actually” and about 4 funny bits from “Valentines Day”. Oh and 3 of those 4 funny bits were in the out-takes, and 2 of them were only funny because the character made a reference to another movie the actor played in.
I’m trying to think of some nice things to say, but now that I have compared the film to “Love Actually” there is very little that I can say in it’s defense. It was not bad, it just was not brilliant.
On the other hand, I might have missed some of the humour. You see the only times I can remember laughing out loud was when Taylor Lautner’s character made some quip referring back to his role as Jake in the Twilight series and Julia Roberts’ quote from her role in Pretty Woman “Big mistake. BIG. HUGE!” (in the out-takes). So there is a good chance that I did not pick up on some of the subtleties of American movie humour.
Go see the movie, there must have been more funny parts, I just can’t remember what they were. But be sure to stay for to see the out-takes that roll during the credits.
Have you seen it? Your thoughts?
sweeeeeeet.
No I refuse to see it
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“Refuse” is a very strong word Dearest!
I am pretty keen to see it. But after watching the trailer all I have been doing is comparing it to Love Actually. Yes – some of the actors may be prettier, but nothing beats good ‘ol british humour. Having said that though, it is not fair for me to state as much without having seen Valentine’s Day myself. This will probably happen in the next week or two. I will let you know if there were any other funny bits.