The greatest movie ever made..!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Director Garry Marshall struck it big with Pretty Woman and since then rom-coms have been a forte of his. He makes a big deal here of Valentine's Day and almost equates to Christmas or Thanksgiving.Valentine's Day is his Robert Altman moment. An array of Hollywood stars criss crossing on the most romantic day of the year. There are literally a dozen or so plot lines in the mix here and all of them not very good and some actors are literally wasted such as Kathy Bates who appears in two scenes.Jamie Foxx is a second tier sports commentator trying to find that big story rather than care for human interest stories who falls for Jessica Biel, a publicist for an over the hill football star whose agent is Queen Latifah.Ashton Kutcher is a romantic florist on the busiest day of the year but his fiancée Jessica Alba is having cold feet and he realises the right woman for him could be his best friend Jennifer Garner a school teacher who is having a fling with a doctor who she later realises is married.Shirley MacLaine is a 1950s starlet married for 50 years to Hector Elizondo but confesses to him of a past betrayal. Their grandson has a first crush and wants Kutcher to deliver a special bouquet for Valentines Day.Bradley Cooper and Julia Roberts are sitting next to each other on a long distance flight, she is a soldier taking leave to get home to spend a few hours with someone special. They seem to get on well and flirt a little but who does Cooper really care for?Anne Hathaway has got a new job working for Queen Latifah but she moonlights as a phone sex operator and just started a relationship with Topher Grace.There are also plot lines featuring Taylor Swift, Taylor Lautner and Emma Roberts which is as tedious as Hathaway talking sexy every five minutes when the phone goes off wherever she is at work, at home or in a restaurant.I liked the young kid bothering Kutcher for the delivery of his roses but you can guess who he really had a crush on. The Roberts/Cooper strand was intriguing and interesting especially as the air hostess also had the hots for Cooper as well. The Hathaway phone sex story just sucked and the other plot lines aroused little interest in me.This is a film that needed to be tighter, more funnier and the stories more interesting. It actually also needed to be more romantic.

I actually liked this quite a bit. It was clever how every single story line was connected (and there are a ton of them). There's also a couple of huge surprises towards the end that I definitely didn't see coming, but on that note the audience is deliberately steered in different directions. All round cute, feel-good movie with a ton of big name stars all revolving around, yup Valentines day.Patrick Dempsey is essentially his 'Greys Anatomy' character, Jessica Alba is funny, Taylor Swift impressed me -also quite funny, Taylor Lautner is embarrassed to take his shirt off in public and very athletic, Jennifer Garner knows how to swing a baseball bat, Julia Roberts is not annoying with a shout out to 'Pretty Woman', Ashton Kutcher plays a large role, nothing remarkable, Jamie Fox is wasted in another role and seemed kind of lost, and Eric Dane... that look his character gives to his valentine after the press conference, just melted me.Yeah, I'll probably watch this again the next time I catch it on TV, much like how I always get sucked into 'Love Actually'. 05.13

As said in the Summary, this film is trying to imitate Love Actually (LA) and failing abysmally.People of all generations with love interests and stories etc that are only there to draw a crowd of all ages. Except for the teen-aged love stories which are absent in LA and might as well have been absent here too - blatantly obvious they are only there to further Taylor Swift's singing career (since she can't act and her song is in it).This film has too many characters and spends too little time on most of the relationships for them to even matter in the scheme of things.In addition to this the producers of this film were unoriginal when naming characters and the plots for said characters: A male chasing after a female in the clichéd airport scene where he hopes to not regret telling her something (also done in LA). A character named Julia in this and a character named Juliet in LA. A character named Kara in this character named Karen in LA. A character named Harrison in this who is cheating on his wife and a character named Harry in LA who is cheating on his wife. A phone sex operator in this and two porn stars in LA for "comedy" (done better in LA). A single parent in this and a single parent in LA. A child who says he needs to tell his love interest how he feels by himself when asked if he needs help (done in both).This film threw in a token gay relationship which was really quite pointless and was akin to the president in LA and the staffer when their relationship was made public. They didn't even have the guys kissing or anything - maybe the actors didn't want to, but this makes it unbelievable and apparently "token". Talking of token, both this and LA have the token "dark skin tone and white skin tone" relationships with adults and children.The people in this film fell in love so quickly it was ridiculous and went out on dates just because they had no one...typical Hollywood agenda there.

The movies where more than five famous actors are playing in, are usually boring and complicated. This one is no exception. Too many stories are taking place on 14th of February, on Valentine's day. It shows many aspects of love, between many couples, some of them without chemistry - actually they seem not to belong with each other. The endless changing of the story is confusing and tiring - in my opinion, if the movie had fewer stories it would have been better and easier to follow through. All in all, a romantic story that is being referred only for valentine's day, very complicating and confusing with too many stories about love.