New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve

Rating 7 out of 10

There are movies I go to for different reasons and expectations.  Sometimes want a good kick buns action movie.  Sometimes a funny movie to make me laugh.  Then there are movies like New Year's Eve.  You go in not expecting a movie classic.  Just a fun movie.  These I call cotton candy movies.  It's like when you take a big wad of cotton candy and put it in your mouth.  Seems like alot at first then turns into a little sugar on your tongue.  Deep, I know. : >

New Year's Eve is similar to and made by the same people that made Valentines Day.  If you saw and liked Valentines Day you will like this one too.  This movie stars, well it would be easier for me to list who is not in it.  Seems every actor with a SAG card is in it.  It's fun to see named actors taking small quickie roles.

New Year's circles around a group of people in NYC about to celebrate what else?  New Years Eve.  There is the mom trying to enjoy the ball drop with her teenage daughter who only wants to be with her friends.  A woman in charge of the ball dropping when it has mechanical problems. Two couples trying to have the first baby of 2012 to win the cash prize.  The man dying alone in his hospital bed wanting to see the ball drop one last time.

Director Garry Marshall does a good job tying all the stories together.  I thought it was a fun movie that won't win any awards, but I'm glad I went.