New Year's Eve (2011)

Wonderful character development!

Very Cool!!!

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Films like Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve are hard to talk about in terms of story because this one has so many different stories weaving in and out of the narrative. This one is like Crash many different characters weaving and out of the film and no real central story. In fact the appearance of characters from one story in another film is tangential almost coincidental.If I had to pick a favorite of any of the stories it would be the reporter story with the reporter Hillary Swank and the man who makes it all happen Hector Elizondo. Apparently Hector is one special maintenance man who is in charge of that Times Square ball that marks the coming year the world over. You'd think we'd all be stuck in the previous year if Hector does not keep the ball in working order. Anyway it gets stuck on the way up to come down and Hector's been laid off. Swank is the one who has to send out a clarion call so New Year's Eve can reach its climax officially. But Hector has his pride and this sequence easily outranks the others.Michelle Pheiffer has an interesting sequence when she walks out of her job with an arrogant boss and has a New Year's Eve with messenger boy Zac Efron that promises to rock their worlds. Life ends for dying cancer patient Robert DeNiro and begins for new mother Jessica Biel at midnight. Someone I think is trying to give us a subtle hint about reincarnation there.Jon Bon Jovi gets to play a rocker like Jon Bon Jovi the central attraction of New Year's Eve the way Guy Lombardo used to be. And New Year's Eve threatens to be a bummer for Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michelle trapped in an elevator.Gary Marshall may have tried for a grand-slam with all the stars he managed to fit into this urban panorama. But he got a double with runs scoring with New Year's Eve.

This is a whole new level of suck. If anyone suggests this movie to you run away. Far far away.I just realized a review needs to be at least ten lines long. That being said let me reiterate the level of suck this movie achieves. It takes suck to a whole new level. Wait, I already said that. Regardless, it needs to be repeated. This movie sucks.OK, so I need four more lines of text. This is one so that leaves three more.Back to my first point, anyone who knows someone who likes this movie should rethink their relationship with that person. They most likely have severe mental health issues and should be put away to keep society safe.Hey what do you know? I can finally post this review. Awesome.

This film has zero plot, and tons of celebrity cameos than aren't even listed on the IMDb cast page. There are so, so many characters all with their own subplot, and not one of them stands out as the main one. I was confused pretty early as there were so many plots, had no idea what any of the characters names were and it was more fun watching it playing six degrees of Kevin Bacon since this film bought almost all the work down to one degree. What made it funnier was when yet another celebrity face appears half way through the film that you weren't even expecting. Its like - thats the girl from that show. Whats her name now? Wait a minute, ill look it up on the IMDb. Which is how I got to writing this review while the film is still playing...

Like Valentines day, this film follows the lives of really beautiful, successful people, and Robert De Niro, as they prepare, face, and reflect on their lives on New Years Eve, in good old New York, because everything is great there apparently...Marshall wants you to cry so much and like these people so much, you can almost see him in the corner if the screen shouting 'these are normal people, with problems just like you!! Like them, I order you too'.While the film isn't as offensive as Sex in the City, all versions, it's still pretty abhorrent to see beautiful people with perfect lives moan about really small things, and then lay on all the schmaltz come the end.Its a pretty impressive cast, but they are given very little to do other than read a really dull, sugar coated script out to each other, and look pretty.De Niro looks really embarrassed to be in this, and Elizondo pops up, as he always does in a Garry Marshall film, maybe he has photos of him or something.Come the end of the film, everybody gets what they want, people are nice to other people, and then its January the first,you wake up and realise that New Years Eve, the movie and the event, is just a big marketing ploy for you to spend lots of money, and be depressed for days after....