Valentine's Day

VALENTINE'S DAY (2010) - Feb. 19, 2010
Oh, the humanity.  About a bunch of characters in L.A. on Valentine's Day, this was a surprisingly awful film.  It started out decently enough -- it was pretty much just a compendium of hoary romcom cliches from minute one, but it was basically entertaining for a while (the novelty of seeing a familiar face in pretty much every role helped).  But after a while the hackiness of it got more and more grating, and the familiarity of the whole thing meant that there wasn't a single surprise, or even a single moment that I hadn't seen many, many times before.  It was boring, and by the end of the film I was very ready for it to be over.  Just imagine every bad romantic comedy that you've ever seen crammed into one intolerable film, and you have this movie in a nutshell.  *