From the makers of Valentine's Day comes this multi-tale rom-com with a kaleidoscopic A-list cast including Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Biel, Zac Efron, Katherine Heigl, Meg Ryan and many more.
The film depicts a series of vignettes from various New Yorkers, taken or single, as the minutes draw closer to the start of a new year. Through the numerous intertwining storylines, every tender encounter dawns on a potential romance.
Following in the same vein as the earlier Hallmark holiday rom-com Valentine’s Day, this is a joyless, overstuffed confection that seems designed more to maximise product placement (right down to Warner Bros’ next blockbuster) and showcase New York’s sights and sounds than to entertain.
Bizarrely sober given its ‘big night’ setting, the film’s lengthy running time means most audience members will require a stiff drink to recover afterwards. They’re more likely to go into a coma, however, from the excess saccharine on display as director Marshall coats everything in a sickly sweet sheen.
Whilst Heigl and Parker look right at home in this fluff, the sight of former Oscar winners Berry and Swank bravely trying to add gravitas and glamour to proceedings just looks unnatural, while De Niro’s career let alone his character feels like it’s on its last legs.
No doubt New Year's Eve will be a box office hit that will pave the way for ‘Memorial Day – The Musical’, but for me it’s the cinematic equivalent of the worst of the ‘women’s’ magazines: all style and no substance.
By James Croot, Flicks.co.nz
i would like to say this movie is great i went and saw it at the movies and now today im going to hire it out i would like to know weither or this does happen in new york city if it does so i would love to be there for the ball dropping its a great movie love love love it and i will be buying it :)
Some very good actors just got together cause they had nothing else to do ( work wise) Worse movie I have seen this year Patricia
Terrible film....pity I can get my time, money and energy back.
but this one was a let down. The funniest part of the entire movie were the bloopers at the end.
The perfect example of commercial cinema ... and the herds go to it ... bunch of sheep, make sure you leave your brain at the door, or you might realise how bad this is.
It's safe to say to no idea was nixed on the set of New Year's Eve for being too cheesy or sentimental; if anything, ideas were nixed for not being sentimental or cheesy enough.
New Year's Eve is a dreary plod through the sands of time until finally the last grain has trickled through the hourglass of cinematic sludge. How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do?
The result proves to be as appealing and effervescent as a flute of flat champagne.
A depressing two-hour infomercial pitching Times Square as the only place in the universe you want to be when the ball drops at midnight on Dec. 31. (Believe me, it's not.)
Another lavish helping of clichés, cameos and implausibly interweaving love stories. Fine if you’re a fan of Valentine’s Day, but Marshall’s multi-star champagne cocktail is all bubbles and no booze.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 8th Dec 2011.
Release date: December 8th 2011.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
