New Year's Eve

Here’s the movie’s sense of humor boiled down to a couple lines: “You’re a real hostile guy. Where do you work, the DMV?” (Hoo boy, the DMV, amirite?) Also: “There are so many things we can’t control in this world: earthquakes, floods, reality shows.” (Golly, those reality shows sure are out of hand, aren’t they?) If you find those jokes funny, this is definitely the movie for you. If not, then you (like me) will keep hoping for a monster to rise from the sea and devour everyone.

This score really surprises me. On the plus side the acting was pretty decent from most people (a few were fucking stupid, but there were so many characters they were somewhat drowned out). Due to so many characters there were many plot lines which lead to short scenes. I don't know if any were longer than a minute. This made the shallow stories palatable and scattered enough that they couldn't ruin them. Watchable, but I would definitely recommend skipping.

A hundred smaller stories is fine, but they should be good stories at least.

It could have been worse, not much but there are clearly room for more crap... Most of the stories are lacklustre, the Michelle.P/Z.Efron-one clearly the best; I'm sure she'd have been my fav anyway though. *Preview*: #12#, exp-2*, popcorn, story, actresses, R2.

Turns out you can only fit (approximately) 583 recognizable A-list stars into a movie by not giving them actual characters or screentime. A statement that should surprise nobody: this movie is not worth your time.

They warned you at the beginning of the film when they said "more celebrities than rehab". Love Actually on terrible steroids.

Giving this a 0 for one reason: The one plot I cared about was fumbled to a degree I didn't think possible, and it pissed me the hell off. Every plotline I gave zero shits about was dramatically resolved, but Abigail Breslin was left hanging in a pool of half-assed anti-climax. Screw you, Gary Marshall. You put tears in my eyes a few times, but I'm giving you no love, because you emotionally ripped me off. Admittedly not terrible, but those are some fake pregnant bellies. And SJP, miscast again!

2

New Year's Eve will probably please anyone looking for an easygoing, unchallenging date movie. One that, when it's finished, something more interesting can take place. Anything would fit that bill. If you want anything other than an overly sentimental piece of fluff made to please people and give actors a paycheck for very little work, you'll want to look elsewhere. And if you want a better version of essentially the same movie, Valentine's Day exists. At least it's funny.

This movie is all over the place. Neither the dozen little stories or the stellar performance of some of the actors can keep this movie together. Quality over quantity. But they chosen the latter.

Highly enjoyable all-star fluff is essentially a $60M Oscar broadcast: a multitude of well-dressed celebrities show up and mouth meaningless platitudes while the audience gasp "Isn't that Halle Berry? Isn't that Michelle Pfeiffer?" Along the way, at least one aging acting legend makes an appearance (De Niro) and the whole occasion ultimately feels frivilous and empty, but benign and good natured enough (with pretty savage product placement to boot!). Bring on Thanksgiving Day!

Well I saw Valentine's day so I thought might as well watch this and just like Valentine's day it's just a way to see how many stars they can get into one crappy movie.

About the only way that this is enjoyable is as an endurance test. See how long you can last before you either fall into a diabetic coma, thanks to the film's saccharine sweetness, or vomit up your own lungs in disgust at how truly terrible the acting and writing are

I am a rom com girly but this one isn't that great

Oh well, wasn't too bad. Pretty cheesy and quite plotless, but hey, it's New Years's Eve.

Michelle Pfeiffer richtig cool

I like that the coordinator and the headliner of the Times Square New Year's celebration both abandoned their duties, and I love that Seth Meyers magnanimously gave up his bragging rights as first father of the year because the other poor sod had a - yuck! - girl. Beautiful messages all around!

So fucking bad.

to my own surprise i somehow liked this film - perhaps it was because after the fiasco that was valentines day i had almost no expectations of it, and was pleasantly surprised when it had some touching moments. of course it went for the cheap ploy and the emotional cop-out and the twist within a twist every single time and was from a critical standpoint a sappy mess, but a little sap never hurt anyone - especially around new years.

A little bit like Love Actually but without any of the lasting appeal or heartwarming stories. I struggled to find much of this movie funny and thought many of the performances were lazy and unimpressive.

+5 Sarah Paulson - hooha;-5 Zac Efron catcalling randoms;-10 terribad writing;-5 2 videos to teach you to kiss;+2 Sofia Vergara;-10 Lea Michele;+2 Ever been to Newark comment;+1 Larry Miller;+3 best NYE plans "crush a 12pack and watch porn";+1 fake Bali in Brooklyn;+1 I never understand people with hair;-5 Name him something manly;-6 Ryan Seacrest Mr. New Year;-5 My water broke/dry pants;+2 crowd-surfing kid;-9 va-jay-jay comment;-2 hiccups;-2 dog named iPod;-10 Stardust isn't Stardust (-2)

The structure is similar to Valentine's day, He is just not into you, Love Actually - but somehow doesn't work as well. Very few of the characters are developed enough. And too many famous actors playing unimportant characters - Mathew Broderick, John Lithgow, James Belushi all play 10 second roles.

A desperately shite attempt to re-make "Love Actually" without any humor, just some cheap emotional string pulling. For example. could anyone honestly really give a shit about the two pregnant couples?

Despicable. Worse than I expected

So many huge stars - so much nothing! The best thing i saw was the ending funny scenes!

Not bad for a mortgage movie (a movie that all involved are doing because it pays the mortgage for a couple months). Star studded, a couple of the stories would maybe have made okay movies on their own but... the whole thing can be summed up by this. "For old lang syne". The lyrics are "for the sake of auld lang syne". They missed "the sake", and the whole movie did too

Heard that this was the worst movie of the year and was sadly disappointed to find that, while still being awful, it isn't the worst thing I've seen this year. It's just nothing new, boring actors, predictable scenarios, lazy everything. De Niro must have so many illegitimate children or a huge drug problem to keep doing garbage year in and year out.

"The half-hearted presence of these actors is the ultimate metaphor for the current tragedy facing the creative class." - Richard Larson

I watch this every year on Bad Movie Day

Good actors, movie was made to grab some money from people who love to see all famous actors in one place. Well I'm not talking about the plot. Of course it's entertaining to see happy people, it's New Year's but nothing more. Just the feeling that you will be celebrating yourself soon. Can't recommend it but if you have nothing better to do in home, give this movie a chance. Cheers~

Prbably the worst movie I have seen in the last 10 years! Doesnt matter if you get 40 movie stars in one movie if you can't write better than a 6 year old. GARBAGE!! I'd rather watch Paint dry than to watch this again!

The poster says its all "Here are some people you might recognize, don't worry you'll be spending 10-15 minutes tops with their boring 'characters'."

really good love all movie stars wonderful movie 10 out of 10

Dumb, shallow und boring for the most part. Fortunately, Sofia Vergara, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert DeNiro, Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michele made up for that. The rest, though, consists of those cliché reveals, which almost destroyed the (few) actual performance-induced moments leading up to them, Abigail Breslin's performance and make-up, Hilary Swank's apparent lack of charisma, and the generic soundtrack. Oh, and I'm also thinking....Toshiba. Bottom line: Leah Michele can fuckin' sing.

poor version of valentines day