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Magic to Win   New Year's Eve  Just when you thought that romantic comedies couldn’t get worse than Gigli, New Year’s Eve comes along and manages to be one of the most excruciating and silly romcoms in quite some time. If you recall the cringe-worthiness of watching Lily Tomlin as a cougar who somehow seduces and sleeps with John Travolta in Moment by Moment or any scenes with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Gigli, you’ll know what it’s like to sit through New Year’s Eve. To explain any of its vignettes that inevitably blend together at New Year’s Eve in Times Square would be pointless because not a single character has a shred of believable qualities about him/her. Most of those plot strands seem to have been written by someone with the mindset of an immature teenager given how the adults behave unlike any sensible adult would behave. If you’re watching this film just to see the face of any actor/actress you admire whether it’s Robert De Niro, Halle Berry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Hilary Swank, Zac Efron, Abigail Breslin, Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer or Katherine Heigl, you’ll go home happy, but if you’re expecting to laugh, cry or to be actually entertained by an engaging story with interesting characters, you’ll be very disappointed. Even Valentine’s Day had a pleasantly diverting scene or two up its sleeve, but New Year’s Eve offers nothing but one bland, contrived scene after another with plenty of asinine, stilted dialogue by screenwriter Katherine Fugate to make your ears bleed. Perhaps if she had set the film on an entirely different planet or added some campiness, it would have been at least somewhat believable and entertaining. Logic and reason can certainly be thrown out the door in a romcom, but up to a certain degree. So much transpires without rhyme or reason that it’s an insult to the audience’s intelligence. Even Sarah Palin’s intelligence would be insulted. For a romcom to be more than the traditional 90 minutes, it should have a raison d'être, but, at a running time of nearly 2 hours New Year’s Eve, has neither that nor anything remotely redeeming. Save yourself the torture and rent Love Actually instead.  Main Page Alphabetical Menu Chronological Menu ______________________________________________________ |
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