“Valentine’s Day” Shines with Lots of Star Power

March 4, 2010 • Cassie Pease, Staff Writer  
Filed under A&E, Featured A&E, Movies

“Valentine’s Day,” directed by Garry Marshall, was definitely a movie full of stars.  These stars included Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher, Julia Roberts, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Topher Grace, Shirley MacLaine, Hector Elizondo, Jennifer Garner, Patrick Dempsey, Eric Dane, Emma Roberts, Taylor Swift, Taylor Lautner, Queen Latifah, Carter Jenkins, George Lopez, and Kathy Bates.

“Valentine’s Day” is a 120-minute PG13 movie.  This is because of language and some sexual content through out the movie.  I think this movie would be best for ninth graders and up because of these reasons.  This movie had many stories within the movie and was a little hard to follow at first, but by the end of the movie you knew what was going on.  There were proposals, breakups, makeups, hookups and affairs.  Any thing that could happen on Valentines Day was in this movie.

The director did not focus enough on one story to fully understand it, but I definitely recommend seeing this movie.  Ashton Kutcher played a man who owned a flower shop which was primarily the main focus on the movie.   Taylor Lautner, former werewolf Jacob Black in “New Moon,” played a shy jock afraid to take his shirt off.  Funny to see the totally different characters he plays: Jacob in “New Moon” brags about his body while in “Valentine’s Day” he was “shy” with his girlfriend (both on screen and off screen) Taylor Swift, who played a clueless teenager.

Not only are there teen relationships but also child relationships.  The child relationships consist of that “Hey this is for you because I guess I like you” issue.   There are many different views on Valentine’s Day that are portrayed in this movie.  For children it’s very awkward not knowing what’s going on.  But for many of the couples in the movie it was supposed to be a romantic, lets spend every moment together day, which didn’t end up working for almost all of the couples in the movie.

In this movie there is a “I hate Valentine’s Day” Party that many attend at the end of the movie.  These are mainly people who do not have a significant other and don’t have anyone to spend Valentine’s Day with.   They bring piñatas, balloons and many other decorations to the party and end up having a lot of fun.  This movie is interesting because of all the actors.  You might even end up trying to count them all like I did!

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