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Valentine's Day
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 33 critic reviews
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Based on 56 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by: Katherine Fugate
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 12, 2010
DVD: May 18, 2010
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some sexual material and brief partial nudity
Starring Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, Taylor Swift, and Julia Roberts
An all-star ensemble cast comes together in Valentine's Day, which follows the intertwining storylines of a diverse group of Los Angelenos as they navigate their way through romance and heartbreak over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
It is a pleasant, undemanding movie that takes place over 18 hours on V-Day and considers Very Attractive People whose romantic destinies converge, diverge, and cloverleaf like the interstates threading through California's Southland.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
There are lots of cameos, as well, too many to count. However, it is worth mentioning that singer Taylor Swift shows up in a couple of scenes, playing a vapid Valley girl, and she's very funny.
Read Full Review >NPR Ella Taylor
If Marshall is an unrepentant Tory on some issues -- Valentine's Day stumps for teen abstinence and marrying your best friend, and warns that career women may end up alone -- he is open-hearted and generously conciliatory on gay rights, and he implies quite casually that multi-culti coupling may be the surest way to dispose of racism.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
Manages to overcome its flaws and become a charming love letter to love itself -- and a pitch-perfect V-Day date film to boot.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
The surprising thing here is how smoothly this over-iced cake goes down.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Yet another Hollywood romantic comedy that's all but devoid of romance and laughs.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
As gooey and lacking in protein as a chocolate holiday bonbon, Valentine's Day plays like a feature-length commercial produced by the Friends of the Valentine Promotional Society.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Valentine's Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think it's more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do NOT date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
The veteran Marshall has proved a quick study, serving up the pastiche with panache so the stars mostly shine, the story snippets mostly amuse and you'll barely notice all the empty spots where a plot used to be.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
In sum it plays like 12 landlocked episodes of "The Love Boat" rammed together, though without the same rate of intercourse.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
What might have seemed like a lively idea -- an all-star roundelay about love in Los Angeles -- is as fossilized as the wooly mammoths in the La Brea Tar Pits.
Read Full Review >Boxoffice Magazine Mark Keizer
A classic case of being too much of a not-very-good thing.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
There are so many romantic-comedy cliches crammed into Valentine's Day that watching it feels like surfing through the channels of an all-chick-flick cable service.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The film's main problems are script-related. Most of the stories aren't merely perfunctory; they're superficial.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
In your typical subpar Hollywood romcom, there’s only one tedious love story to put up with. Well, Valentine’s Day (such a clever title) does a whole lot better than that: It offers 10 tedious love stories to put up with.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Valentine's Day is sugary, sappy and totally predictable. It's also what a whole lot of women are likely to want.
Read Full Review >Time Mary Pols
The film skips along pleasantly, supremely confident in its own cuteness and utterly unapologetic about how shallow or contrived it might be.
Read Full Review >Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
There's far too much going on in Valentine's Day, and far too little of it is worth the trouble.
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
It’s an American "Love Actually" without the warmth that writer-director Richard Curtis stuffs into his all-star confections, without the wit, without much love, actually.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
The film feels as calculatedly sentimental as one of those bland pink candy hearts.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Jen Chaney
Largely relies on stale gender stereotypes and tired comedy routines that don't elicit much laughter.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
What it lacks in charm, humor, and intelligence, it makes up for in sheer volume.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen
Valueless as entertainment, it’s still useful as a disambiguation tool for those who confuse Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel, or Taylor Dayne and Taylor Swift.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Karina Longworth
Shoddy enough within its primary genre, Valentine's Day becomes deadly in its attempt to be a Los Angeles Ensemble Movie.
Read Full Review >New York Observer Rex Reed
It’s a romantic piffle stuffed with so much candy that your skin could break out.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Explores love in all its myriad forms, from the sickeningly sappy to the cornball to the groaningly precious and obnoxiously cute.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A Garry Marshall movie has to be funny in order to be anything at all, and this one is so deeply involved with its pseudo-meaningful roundelay of beautiful but inexplicably lovelorn people as to be teeth-grindingly, mind-warpingly boring.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
This might not be the Titanic of romantic comedies (it’s tugboat size), but it’s a disaster: cynically made, barely directed, terribly written. But quick: there’s still time to escape!
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Aggressively unfunny and unromantic, Valentine’s Day’s chief concern appears to have been the corralling of its cast of a thousand stars; it seems far less attention was paid to what to do with that cast once assembled.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Less funny or romantic than your average colonoscopy, this cringe-inducing bore provides dubious employment for four Oscar winners, two nominees and a raft of TV performers.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
How you feel about Valentine's Day may depend on how you feel when someone really, really cute -- and someone you're really, really fond of -- gives you a nasty box of cheap chocolate on Valentine's Day, picked up at the corner Rite Aid and delivered with the price tag still attached.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.8 (out of 10) based on 56 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Peru gave it an8:
This movie was better than I expected and did a good job on using the whole star studded cast in this movie and there were two twists that I had no idea would happen so it made the ending a lot better with having it half predictable and half unpredictable.
Bryce S. gave it an8:
Funny, but not so funny that your face hurts... Definitely a good movie... but you can wait to watch it when it's out on TV.
Richie F. gave it an8:
Basically, ignore every "professional" review you hear about this movie. I went in thinking it was going to be a mildly funny chick flick with an amazing cast. But it was more than just a guilty pleasure movie. It was fun and literally the perfect movie to see on V-Day. While it wasn't a perfect movie, it was still cool to see each individual story tie in with each other, all leading up to the great, meaningful ending - when you see it, you'll know what I mean. I really do recommend this movie to basically everybody. If not for the storyline, at least go for the awesome cast!
Kevin C gave it a0:
Each story is just as superficial, preachy, and crammed with cliches as any other chick-flick. The difference is that there are a ton of them put together into one. The only noteworthy performance from the legion of cameos was Taylor Swift's, and she's not even an actress. But It is not enough to save this disaster of a movie. I hope Swift gets better roles in the fututre, she has potential.
Steve T. gave it a9:
Much better than expected.
John L. gave it a7:
The crtitics are too hard on this one. I have seen many movies worse than this one, it wasn't even that bad. It was slightly better than average. Every single character had their own story arc, and most of them by themselves were great, but on top of that they were all intertwined at the end. If you got tired of one of the actors and their character all you had to do was wait for the next one to come up. Each character, even though they are rich and live in Beverly Hills, represented a problem that any of us may face in our everyday lives. Most of these characters and their struggles with love were executed brilliantly on big screen. The only thing wrong with this movie, and the reason my score is a 7, is because I felt that a lot of the story arcs were brought to a effortless, easy ending that really made you disappointed. If you're going to put this much time and effort into a movie, don't do it half ass. Finish strong, its truely the ending that counts. In conclusion, whether you're single, in a relationship, or married, looking for someone, avoiding commitment, or have something preventing you from following your dreams, no matter who you are or what your status is, you will be able to relate to someone in this movie, and it is satisfying.
Aaron M gave it an8:
While you might not care for the relationships themselves in the movie, it is something about the story, the pacing, the direction, and tone of the movie that is overwhelmingly enjoyable! You'd have to be a grinch not to enjoy this movie for the simple entertainment it is. Also, it also felt good to see a movie with so many stars where they seem to just enjoy acting and not everything is so heavy and burdensome. This movie is both a tribute to actors as well as the audience the movie invites along for the ride.
