This movie is made up of one thing: a great deal of celebrities too many to mention. It is something that you can compare similar to movies in the past like ‘Love Actually’ and ‘Valentine’s Day.’ It features a huge cast of stars doing very small roles.
Just like ‘Valentine’s Day’ everything takes place in just a single day. It opens up with a very corny voice over as if explaining that the world happens in some kind of parallel world. We meet too many for a cast that you surely would want to take notes while watching it.
It basically tells the lives of singles and couples in New York and having all their lives intertwine during one New Year’s eve. You see Katherine Heigl pair up with Bon Jovi while Hillary Swank play the executive who is in charge of the huge Time Square ball. Michelle Pfeiffer plays a personal assistant for a record label who hires a bike courier in the likings of Zac Efron to take her for a tour in the city. Lea Michelle, a back up singer gets stuck in an elevator with a humbug played of course by Ashton Kutcher.
Two pregnant couples are played out by Sarah Paulson and Jessica Biel as they battle of who gets to give birth first for the New Year while Abigail Breslin becomes daughter to Sarah Jessica Parker. Robert DeNiro plays a lonely dying man in a hospital with just a nurse played by Halle Berry and a whole bunch of other stars.
This is one kind of very rapid storytelling style of movie. There is constant moving around for the film stays on one character for just about five minutes. What is good about it is that it will make you realize that New Year’s even is not just merely about getting laid or getting drunk. It can be about having second chances, even. All in all, Gary Marshall as the director for the film did not shine out well with this one.
The pairing up of the couples in the film have surprising twists while Marshall was successful in hitting the right marks when he wants to give the audience a few laughs along the way. Just make sure that when you see this film, you have all the time to notice all the big stars that would come your way. The one thing you’d notice is that the more popular the star is, the less that you would see them stay long on camera to grab your attention.