New Year’s Eve (12A)

Film

Romance

Seth Meyers, center, and Jessica Biel in New Year's Eve

Seth Meyers, center, and Jessica Biel in New Year's Eve

Time Out rating:

<strong>Rating: </strong>1/5

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<strong>Rating: </strong>3/5
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Time Out says

Tue Dec 6 2011

Director Garry Marshall continues his systematic defilement of the calendar’s most romantic holidays with another romcom built and executed like a ’70s disaster movie. Repeating the formula from last year’s ‘Valentine’s Day’, Marshall assembles an all-star cast including (deep breath) Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Sarah Jessica Parker, Seth Meyers, Sofia Vergara, Jessica Biel, Lea Michele from ‘Glee’ and many, many more for a labyrinth of intersecting melodramas and love stories set in New York City on, naturally, December 31. The hypothetical advantage of such a massive ensemble is the assumption that, somewhere among the high quantity of characters, there’ll be a few folks we actually like. Yet each plot thread is worse than the last: a welcome break from Katherine Heigl and Jon Bon Jovi’s interminable lovers’ quarrel simply means another trip to the hospital to watch Halle Berry console a cancer-ridden Robert de Niro. It all adds up to a celebrity-obsessed city symphony played on one painfully flat note.

Author: Matt Singer, Time Out New York

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Release details

Rated:

12A

UK release:

Thu Dec 8 2011

Duration:

118 mins

Cast and crew

Cast:

Jessica Biel, Lea Michele, Zac Efron, Alyssa Milano, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sienna Miller, Halle Berry, Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Sofía Vergara, Ashton Kutcher, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Abigail Breslin, Hilary Swank

Screenwriter:

Katherine Fugate

Director:

Garry Marshall

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Rated as: 3/5 (9 ratings)

  • Don't beat me up for this, but I for one enjoyed this movie! Everyone says its trash, but it's actually great..the wrong people are reviewing this!

    Miriam Sat Sep 29 2012
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • Don't beat me up for this, but I for one enjoyed this movie! Everyone says its trash, but it's actually great..the wrong people are reviewing this!

    Miriam Sat Sep 29 2012
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • Amazing film, the best film I have ever made I mean seen...

    The Director Sun May 27 2012
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  • A truly awful film. There were laugh out loud moments but for all the wrong reasons.

    Shazabella Sat Jan 21 2012
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • Certainly the worst film ever! How these actors coild deliver this awful script is beyond me. Product placement was way over the top, and the story lines were so unbelievable. The woman actress chef was a joke, she clearly had no idea how to cut up a pineapple!

    Geoff Wed Dec 28 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • It's utter drivel, obviously, but Zac Efron at least turns his cheesy lines into charm for the 5 minutes he's on screen. But it's still not worth the agony of sitting through the other 113 minutes. It was a complimentary ticket, dont judge me..

    Evie Sat Dec 24 2011
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  • Hey rebecca, I heard Time Out have been advertising for a film reviewer, I totally think you should go for it.

    frank Thu Dec 22 2011
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  • this movie is amazing so people that has said it is bad or rubbish they are wierd.

    rebecca Thu Dec 22 2011
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • I almost didn't watch this movie because of the hideous reviews but I was pleasantly surprised! Go see this movie! It clearly doesn't pretend to be intelligent or artful but it works. There are lots of genuine laughs which you can't say about many comedies this year. It's an ensemble cast with tons of stars. It follows the prototype of 'Valentine's day' which is clearly a superior film. The difficulty of such a movie is always meshing the multiple plot lines into one coherent one. But if you want glitz,one liners and a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, and has the spirit of the holidays, 'New Years eve' is your cup of tea. Don't go by the reviews and you will be pleasantly surprised when you will catch yourself liking it!

    Henry Zakumumpa Wed Dec 21 2011
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  • I agree with most of the reviews about how appalling this movie is but wonder how come no one noticed all the commercial brands shamelessly displayed in most scenes. Disgusting!! New Year's Eve=product placement central. That's mostly what kept me awake while watching, spot the next big brand.

    Nefertiiti Fri Dec 16 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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