Cast
Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Duhamel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Sofía Vergara, Jon Bon Jovi, Katherine Heigl, Russel Peters, Robert De Niro, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank, Ludacris, Hector Elizondo, Jessica Biel, Seth Meyers, Carla Gugino, Sarah Paulson, Til Schweiger
Garry Marshall is making a habit of taking up a special moment in everyone’s life and converting it into a multi super starrer, multiple story line movie (MSSMSLM). We saw Valentines Day last year and this year it is New Years Eve. Whats the best that the next 2 movies are going to be titled – Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving? Any takers? =D. But jokes apart, if there is anyone who deserves to be titled the king of the Romantic Comedy genre it is Marshall. I mean look at the list – Pretty Woman, Frankie & Johnny, Runaway Bride, Princess Diaries, Raising Helen and then the occasion based movies last year and now. Wow!!! Quite certain that no one can challenge this position.
New Years Eve is your average MSSMSL Romantic Comedy (refer previous paragraph for the expansion of this acronym). If you are a sucker for Romantic Comedies like this author, you are bound to shed a small tear or two thanks to the “Oh how sweet” moments that pepper the movie. There would normally be 6 stories in this genre of movies but in NYE, there are 9!!!! So lets start counting shall we?
We have a secretary who has apparently spent a better part of her life dreaming about what she wants and hasn’t done it till now. So her bucket list is neatly folded away in her purse. She works for an insensitive boss and decides that NYE is a good time to build a friendship with the local courier delivery guy who is too sweet to ignore her desire to complete everything on her list – all because it gets him passes for the Ahern Records New Years Bash. An organization that is owned by a mother and son duo since the father passed. The son has met someone fantastic the previous NYE and needs to meet her again as planned this NYE.
Then there are 2 couples expecting a child and are competing to be the one closest to the strike of midnight. There is a mother who wants to spend NYE with her 15 year old daughter who in turn wants to be with her first boy friend and get kissed when the year turns over. A Vietnam War Photographer who is dying of cancer and is regretful about. He develops a friendship with a nurse who is missing the love of her life who is serving in IRAQ or someplace in the middle east I guess. Then there is a super star singer who is also played by a super star singer. He develops cold feet the year before and runs away from his super star chef fiancé only to return this year to perform at the Ahern bash and the Times Square Party as well. Rounding off the stories are those of the organizer of the Times Square Ball (didn’t know something like that existed and now I have to see it in person) and that of a NYE skeptic who gets stuck in an elevator for 8 hours with a back-up singer for the super star singer. Phew!!!! I hope haven’t missed any.
All in all if you don’t get over awed with the over-supply of stars – who each get 7 mins and 48.38 seconds of screen time, NYE is a decent way to spend a Saturday afternoon with someone who really matters to you. Full points to Garry Marshall once again for having cemented his position as the King of RomCom. Just keep a look out for a bunch of teenagers and be prepared for their screams every time Zac Efron comes on screen. 6 on 10 like most Garry Marshall movies (with the exception of Pretty Woman).
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi673095449/
Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Duhamel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Sofía Vergara, Jon Bon Jovi, Katherine Heigl, Russel Peters, Robert De Niro, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank, Ludacris, Hector Elizondo, Jessica Biel, Seth Meyers, Carla Gugino, Sarah Paulson, Til Schweiger
Garry Marshall is making a habit of taking up a special moment in everyone’s life and converting it into a multi super starrer, multiple story line movie (MSSMSLM). We saw Valentines Day last year and this year it is New Years Eve. Whats the best that the next 2 movies are going to be titled – Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving? Any takers? =D. But jokes apart, if there is anyone who deserves to be titled the king of the Romantic Comedy genre it is Marshall. I mean look at the list – Pretty Woman, Frankie & Johnny, Runaway Bride, Princess Diaries, Raising Helen and then the occasion based movies last year and now. Wow!!! Quite certain that no one can challenge this position.
New Years Eve is your average MSSMSL Romantic Comedy (refer previous paragraph for the expansion of this acronym). If you are a sucker for Romantic Comedies like this author, you are bound to shed a small tear or two thanks to the “Oh how sweet” moments that pepper the movie. There would normally be 6 stories in this genre of movies but in NYE, there are 9!!!! So lets start counting shall we?
We have a secretary who has apparently spent a better part of her life dreaming about what she wants and hasn’t done it till now. So her bucket list is neatly folded away in her purse. She works for an insensitive boss and decides that NYE is a good time to build a friendship with the local courier delivery guy who is too sweet to ignore her desire to complete everything on her list – all because it gets him passes for the Ahern Records New Years Bash. An organization that is owned by a mother and son duo since the father passed. The son has met someone fantastic the previous NYE and needs to meet her again as planned this NYE.
Then there are 2 couples expecting a child and are competing to be the one closest to the strike of midnight. There is a mother who wants to spend NYE with her 15 year old daughter who in turn wants to be with her first boy friend and get kissed when the year turns over. A Vietnam War Photographer who is dying of cancer and is regretful about. He develops a friendship with a nurse who is missing the love of her life who is serving in IRAQ or someplace in the middle east I guess. Then there is a super star singer who is also played by a super star singer. He develops cold feet the year before and runs away from his super star chef fiancé only to return this year to perform at the Ahern bash and the Times Square Party as well. Rounding off the stories are those of the organizer of the Times Square Ball (didn’t know something like that existed and now I have to see it in person) and that of a NYE skeptic who gets stuck in an elevator for 8 hours with a back-up singer for the super star singer. Phew!!!! I hope haven’t missed any.
All in all if you don’t get over awed with the over-supply of stars – who each get 7 mins and 48.38 seconds of screen time, NYE is a decent way to spend a Saturday afternoon with someone who really matters to you. Full points to Garry Marshall once again for having cemented his position as the King of RomCom. Just keep a look out for a bunch of teenagers and be prepared for their screams every time Zac Efron comes on screen. 6 on 10 like most Garry Marshall movies (with the exception of Pretty Woman).
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi673095449/
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