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07/06/09
I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:4
Rotten:21
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: This boilerplate comedy lacks ingenuity or humor and features mediocre dialogue that sounds less like conversation and more like stand-up shtick.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: After the mammoth success of MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING in 2002, Nia Vardalos and John Corbett reunite for this unromantic-sounding romantic comedy. As the owner of the Brooklyn florist Roses for... [More]
Starring: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Stephen Guarino, Amir Arison
Director: Nia Vardalos
Reviews for I Hate Valentine's Day
I found it to be really one note. This is not authentic modern courtship.
07/06/09
An unspeakable nadir in the career of its writer-director-star, My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Nia Vardalos.
07/03/09
By the time the end credits hit, there's joy emerging not from the outcome of the Genevieve/Greg romantic tango, but the feeling of relief to know the film, and Vardalos's insipid direction, has finally come to a close.
07/01/09
The movie is set up as a valentine to Vardalos. She should try sending herself flowers.
07/03/09
Top CriticUninspired romcom is no My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
07/06/09
It's like eating a plain Hershey's bar on that supposedly most romantic day of the year. It may soothe your sweet tooth for a brief bit, but you'll still be longing for Godiva.
07/10/09
A charmless rom-com about an exhaustingly vivacious florist.
07/10/09
Vardalos doesn't write dialogue; she writes shtick...the whole thing is one long riff, with few laughs and an inevitable destination.
06/30/09
The strength of Vardalos' movies is that she loves all of her fellow actors and allows large ensembles to flourish.
06/30/09
Top CriticAll I Hate Valentine's Day adds up to is an awkward, ritualized date between moviegoer and a still-learning triple hyphenate.
07/03/09
Top CriticIs it too pat to say I Hate This Movie? That's about the level of creative energy Vardalos applies to a film that manages to be every bit as bad as My Life in Ruins.
07/01/09
Given the inevitable response to this equally regrettable rom-com, she can expect to loathe Independence Day, too.
07/02/09
What it lacks in laughs -- there are none -- it tries to make up for by ladling on stale clichés, such as Vardalos' two stereotypically gay assistants and a desperate younger female friend who stalks guys.
07/03/09
You might blame Nora Ephron, whose screenplay for When Harry Met Sally established the formula that I Hate Valentine’s Day runs into the ground. Compared with this, Ms. Ephron is Chekhov.
07/03/09
Top CriticFor I Hate Valentine's Day, Vardalos has chosen to direct. And that's a mistake that only compounds the ones in her screenplay.
07/03/09
An alternately kooky and kinky comedy about the impossibility of establishing a science of romance, the movie is salvaged from small screen sitcomish attitude by the enormous warmth and vivacious personality of Vardolos, even when in pretend tyrant mode.
06/30/09
A big fat Greek flop!
07/10/09
A contrived, juvenile and painfully unfunny romantic comedy.
07/03/09
An indie romantic comedy even worse than most of the bigger-budgeted but almost invariably rotten Hollywood examples of the genre.
07/02/09
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