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		<title>Movie Review (Dan&#8217;s Take): Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With  no less than 20 billable stars and eight story lines, the humdrum Valentine&#8217;s Day is a marshmallow-fisted counter-attack against the cynical idea that &#8220;Love&#8217;s Day&#8221; is a corporate foisted, marketing driven excuse to steal money and inspire loveless singles feel bad about themselves. It&#8217;s a &#8220;one day where love conquers all and everyone gets their Valentine wish&#8221; movie. Or at least, that&#8217;s what the overly forced scripts tries to clobber home. Instead, Valentine&#8217;s Day offers a valentine box that&#8217;s not stuffed with homemade, handwritten tokens of affection, but their store-bought, shallow and emotionally truncated equivalent. So here&#8217;s a moment of uncomfortable truth: I wanted to see this movie. Buoyed by the prospect of cozying up to a cloying, feel-good American companion to Love, Actually, Valentine&#8217;s Day felt like a chance to take in a round of filmic comfort food. But at the end of its two hours, even my Lady-Friend, who attended the screening with me, was disenfranchised. &#8220;It was OK&#8221; isn&#8217;t a blushing, melting endorsement from a core audience member. As fun as watching 2/3 of People Magazine&#8216;s &#8220;World&#8217;s Most Beautiful People&#8221; should be, Valentine&#8217;s Day dilutes the experience in a tangle of plot thread overkill. Girl meets boy, but boy is married and only her best friend knows. Phone sex girl is in a new relationship but can&#8217;t bring herself to tell her new guy about her profession. Girl plans to give up her virginity&#8211; shenanigans ensue. News Reporter is assigned to cover Valentine&#8217;s day and discovers its true meaning&#8230; and more! In short, little kids crush, teens gush, working girls mope, Gen Xers waffle and old timers dance in the park. As balance, all these mini-tales haphazardly weave through the lives of &#8220;I&#8217;ve found the one!&#8221; school teacher Julia (Jennifer Garner) and &#8220;I lost the one!&#8221; floral business owner Reed (Ashton Kutcher). If you do the math, Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8216;s two hour ho-hummery gives&#8211;at most&#8211; 15 minutes of screen interaction per plot thread. When most films go the 90-120 minute distance to cover one romance alone, 10-15 minute vignettes (intercut with 8 more vignettes) just doesn&#8217;t give time to connect. Flatly directed by the affable Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride), Valentine&#8217;s Day is a movie that&#8217;s numerically engineered&#8211; a Warner Brothers/Valentines Day Marketers of America play at nailing down Valentine&#8217;s weekend with a can&#8217;t-miss date movie. And while that&#8217;s not a recipe for failure, a cadre of stars who dully interact in a story that&#8217;s all about matters of the heart shouldn&#8217;t be so manipulatively fabricated that it never finds one of its own. We&#8217;re shown what Valentine&#8217;s day is supposed to be, but we never feel it. And really, that&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8216;s biggest disappointment. In 120 minutes, the film never accomplishes what Google did in less than one. Coated in the impermeable plastic sheen of connect the plot dot and run-of-the-mill direction, all relationships must conveniently contort their resolutions to time demands. The movie incessantly spoon-feeds its audience greeting card shallow platitudes like &#8220;Love means...]]></description>
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