New Year's Eve (2011)

Sadly Over-hyped

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Honestly it was too good i mean the new years eve, all the problems are being solved untill the midnight, everything is perfect and stuff.. it was just too perfect and not very interesting but it is a movie that will make you smile and warm your heart..

I probably wouldn't recommend this movie under any circumstances, but I found it enjoyable to watch on a New Year's Day afternoon as I was doing a few minor household tasks. I enjoyed seeing all the many actors/actresses I recognized. The multiple plot lines were not exactly compelling, but they did hold my interest and were entertaining.

New Year's Eve is an all star ensemble romantic-drama-comedy from the people behind the similar formatted Valentine's Day. However here they had an idea and tried to cram a script and a multiple storyline and it failed.A film that does not even smell Christmas even though it has a holiday season setting and is set on New Years Eve with Times Square becoming a focal point as the Times Square Ball will in due course will be raised and come midnight will be dropped.Our set of characters include two couples that want to be the first to give birth after midnight, a man dying alone of cancer, a stoned cartoonist stuck in a life with a backing singer, a middle aged woman who realises that life is sliding by and asks a young man to make her dreams come true, a young schoolgirl who wants to see the new year in with her friends and her mom is reluctant so she runs away, a man on his way to New York hoping to meet a lady of his dreams but his car has broken down. Then we have the person who is in charge of the ball drop and that does not include all the characters. Jon Bon Jovi turns up as a rock singer with regrets and on and on it goes.The interweaving stories do not work because of the poor script. You have scenes such as a doctor who tells a pregnant patient that she will not be delivering babies at midnight as she has plans only to be in hospital delivering a baby later that evening. The person whose sole job is to make sure the ball drops, leaves just before midnight to visit someone. The man who is striving to get to New York for in effect a blind date was certainly not horsing around.Some of the actors are playing shorthand characters. Robert De Niro as the grouch, Michelle Pfeiffer is similar to the secretary she played in Batman Returns, Lea Michele plays a character who stepped off Glee, Zac Efron has an enthusiasm like the character he played in High School Musical.The film is neither deep, funny or romantic. It even fails to reflect New York but does display a cynicism of lazy filmmaking as it strives for cloying sentimentality.The bright part is that the film is inoffensive, passes the time but you will gain little at the end of it.

'New Year's Eve', despite its mammoth ensemble cast, doesn't quite leave a mark. Its, at best, a fair watch, that has a few interesting moments. 'New Year's Eve' Synopsis: The lives of several couples & singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.Katherine Fugate's Screenplay is ambitious, but not very well-crafted. The vignettes laced in the narrative, range from ordinary to dull. The only vignette that holds appeal is the one called Elevator, which features Ashton Kutcher & Lea Michelle. Garry Marshall's Direction is decent. Cinematography is picture-perfect. Editing lacks sharpness. Art & Costume Design are alright.Performance-Wise: Of the ensemble cast, Its only Ashton Kutcher & Lea Michelle who deliver confident, likable performances. The rest of the cast lend adequate support.On the whole, 'New Year's Eve' is a so-so fare.