Star-studded romantic comedy, with enough flowers, chocolates and cheese, to make anyone grab feel sick.
Set during one Valentine's day, a whole mixture of love plots become entwined as the day progresses. Engagements, love rats, and anti-romance-holiday fanatics fill our screen, the hectic pace of those trying to make this Valentine's Day the best ever, is matched by the moroseness of those just trying to survive it.
A difficult film to like, as the frenetic structure allows for little character development, or for any attachment to the lives of these people to grow. The performances are comically mediocre, one senses that many of these stars have been forced into this picture. Ashton Kutcher is the best part of this film, his enthusiastic approach to life (and the heartbreak which follows) allow for some attachment. Julia Roberts gives the most poignant storyline of the movie, playing a soldier in the army travelling back for one day to see her son. Mostly, though, the film is filled with A and B list celebrities pretending to have romance problems. I found it very difficult to believe that Jessica Biel would have man problems, or that Jennifer Garner could not get a man of her own!
The film gets points for trying something new with the genre, but not many, due to the tedious nature of the story and the complete lack of depth.
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