I saw this movie last night with my girlfriends. In some ways I agree with the critics; however, I did find the film amusing and entertaining. Sometimes, there is nothing better than a mindless chick-flick after a busy work day. "Valentine's Day," in my opinion, was exactly that. It has fluffy and over-crowded parts, but overall I enjoyed it. Not every movie can amount to Oscar status.
P.S. the guys in this movie are deeee-licious!
My rating:
Who Loved It?
Honestly, I couldn't find a single positive review other than for individual actors.
"Swift makes the most of her limited screentime and is--quite unsurprisingly--a dynamic screen presence whom the camera clearly adores. You might think of her extended cameo as a high-profile, low-pressure screentest for bigger and better roles, and she passes with flying colors." -CMT News
"Emma Roberts (Julia's niece) handles her role as a teen grappling with her sexuality with convincing, understated grace." - The Washington Post
Who Hated It? (mostly everyone!)
While Valentine's Day is allegedly the busiest time of the year for the delivery of mush messages and corny love trinkets all around town, the same should never be the case in a movie. Hyperactively busy in the extreme while negotiating endless crisscross plot lines between way too cute celeb cameos that include geriatric infidelity. Worse, Garry Marshall's Valentine's Day is skits-ophrenic moviemaking when less would have indeed been much more.
In other words, where does one begin. It's Valentine's Day morning in LA, and shy guy florist deliveryman Reed (Kutcher) wakes up extra early to propose marriage to ambivalent girlfriend Morley (Jessica Alba), who seems more attached to her blackberry. Literally. Which means Reed has to figure out just how to pry her fingers loose from the addictive gadget in order to find that spare finger for his engagement ring.
While on another side of town, anxious television news anchor Kelvin (Jaime Foxx) has just been demoted to puff piece patrol to sniff out human interest holiday stories. And which Kelvin needs to wrap up, before jogging over to a press conference at which a famous athlete will announce he's gay.
Elsewhere, giddy grade school teacher Julia (Jennifer Garner), who is otherwise fairly luckless in romance, daydreams between classroom lessons about her current surprise requited crush on a possibly too good to be true affectionate physician (Dempsey). This while a more sensible and stern army captain (Julia Roberts) shares a phiosophical plan ride with a mysterious tranger...who will actually get to have the last word in wrapping up these overly crowded scenarios. The movie seems less like a smoothly paced script than a rush hour traffic jam.
Oh, but there's more. Also getting in on the act for some dubious comic relief, is Jessica Biel as a thoroughly unconvincing sad sack who can't get a date. As a frantic Anne Hathaway appears to be revisiting her presecuted workplace drudge in The Devil Wears Prada, with Queen Latifah seemingly preempting Meryl Streep this time around.
And while Hathaway moonlights on the sly during work hours as a phone sex operator to make ends meet and pay for her health insurance, her dirty talk is so lame PG that the actual phone sex industry may end up losing business. Though Queen Latifah's boss from hell secretive impluse to move in and take over Hathaway's seductive operation with virtual bullwhip in hand, couldn't be funnier and saves this collaborative mayhem from looming movie overkill.
Away We Go is a quirky romantic comedy about a couple that finds themselves preggers but lacking a place to call home. Without fulfilling jobs or loving families tying them to Colorado, they set out across the country and Canada to find the perfect spot to raise their daughter. 
