“New Year’s Eve” has been met with terrible reviews and sluggish box office attendance as this film is filled with cliche-laden stories that we have seen before. At least producer-director Garry Marshall (“Young Doctors in Love” 1982) and screenwriter Katherine Fugate made the picture in Marshall’s patented easy-going style and is somewhat watchable.
The numerous storylines are carefully tied together like an intricate Christmas gift. The audience is left to unravel the dubious gift. Hilary Swank gets the ball rolling as a Times Square executive who is in a fix because the big New Year’s Eve ball is stuck and will not descend. She is helped by Chris Bridges and Hector Elizondo.
Michelle Pfeiffer plays a record company secretary bored with her job. Zach Efron as a deliveryman talks her into quitting. His sister is Sarah Jessica Parker, who is having trouble with her daughter, played by Abigail Breslin. The glaring twenty-two year age difference between Efron and Parker is quite amusing!
Others include Robert De Niro, sick in the hospital, and attended to by beautiful nurses Halle Berry and Alyssa Milano. Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michele are stuck in a broken elevator. Jon Bon Jovi displays his acting range in his portrayal of a music rock star, with Katherine Heigl playing his girlfriend.
Before we post a spoiler alert, there are numerous other storylines featuring Seth Meyers, Jessica Biel, James Belushi, Josh Duhamel, Carla Gugino, Sofia Vergara, John Lithgow, Common, Cherry Jones, and Penny Marshall and Ryan Seacrest as themselves. What more could one ask for “New Year’s Eve” from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures?
New Year’s Eve (2011)
cinema
My Review
“New Year’s Eve” has been met with terrible reviews and sluggish box office attendance as this film is filled with cliche-laden stories that we have seen before. At least producer-director Garry Marshall (“Young Doctors in Love” 1982) and screenwriter Katherine Fugate made the picture in Marshall’s patented easy-going style and is somewhat watchable.
The numerous storylines are carefully tied together like an intricate Christmas gift. The audience is left to unravel the dubious gift. Hilary Swank gets the ball rolling as a Times Square executive who is in a fix because the big New Year’s Eve ball is stuck and will not descend. She is helped by Chris Bridges and Hector Elizondo.
Michelle Pfeiffer plays a record company secretary bored with her job. Zach Efron as a deliveryman talks her into quitting. His sister is Sarah Jessica Parker, who is having trouble with her daughter, played by Abigail Breslin. The glaring twenty-two year age difference between Efron and Parker is quite amusing!
Others include Robert De Niro, sick in the hospital, and attended to by beautiful nurses Halle Berry and Alyssa Milano. Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michele are stuck in a broken elevator. Jon Bon Jovi displays his acting range in his portrayal of a music rock star, with Katherine Heigl playing his girlfriend.
Before we post a spoiler alert, there are numerous other storylines featuring Seth Meyers, Jessica Biel, James Belushi, Josh Duhamel, Carla Gugino, Sofia Vergara, John Lithgow, Common, Cherry Jones, and Penny Marshall and Ryan Seacrest as themselves. What more could one ask for “New Year’s Eve” from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures?