Valentine's Day

Release Date: Feb 12, 2010 

Runtime: 1 hr. 57 min. 

Director: Garry Marshall 

Cast: Julia Roberts, Emma Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher, Topher Grace, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, George Lopez, Queen Latifah, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Swift.

Take every cliché about love, over a dozen A-list actors and you get an unoriginal rom-com appropriately titled "Valentine's Day." So where does any movie with such a star-studded cast go wrong? The plot lines become thin, stories uninspired and you get a bevy of attractive people whose fate seems to rely heavily on this aforementioned day. It's 'cute' and enjoyable for the female crowd but it lacks an intelligence that "Love Actually" so successfully obtained through a similar formula. Director Garry Marshall doesn't quite bring his A-game like he's done in the past with "Pretty Woman" or even "The Princess Diaries." As a result, you're left with another sappy movie that only garners attention to the cast and not to the theme of love. Let's hope "New Year's Eve" proves differently but I highly doubt it. 

Rating: 1½ stars