New Year's Eve (film)

Happy New Year ( Original title: New Year's Eve ) is an American romantic comedy, which had on December 8, 2011 premiere in Germany. Directed by Garry Marshall, and written by Katherine Fugate.

Action

The episodic film is about people who spend New Year's Eve in New York and have different connections to each other.

Claire organizes the annual ball drop in Times Square, which is to begin the countdown to midnight. She receives support from the police Brendan. Shortly before midnight, the Times Square Ball no longer threatens to function, it must bring back the long -time chief engineer Kominsky. This she herself had previously fired a few weeks.

On the New Year's celebration of a record label that is aligned by the cook Laura, also occurs, the successful singer Jensen. Laura was previously engaged to Jensen, but he had doubts about the connection and left her before the wedding.

Ingrid, a timid employees this record company tries to finally implement their good intentions into action. Here it is the young bike messenger Paul help the promises tickets for the hip New Year's Eve celebration of the label in return.

Meanwhile, Stan Harris lies in a hospital near the Times Square in the death and expressed his last wish. He wants to see on the roof of the hospital the ball drop and experience as the last time the New Year at Times Square. The nurse Aimee assists him during their night shift.

The New Year's Eve muffle Randy remains with the backing singer Elise stuck in the elevator, so she threatens to miss their appearance at Jensen.

Schwab family and family Byrne deliver to the maternity ward a race to the first birth of the year in New York, has been issued for a premium of $ 25,000. In the end, Mr. Byrne indulges the Schwab money in which he dated the birth of his child back.

Kim is trying to find her daughter Hailey. This has left against the will of her mother on New Year's Eve the apartment to give her swarm Seth the first kiss of the new year.

Sam needs a speech at the ceremony and hold left on the way there are with the car. Since New Year's Eve all shops have closed, he fears no longer time to arrive there. The family of a towing operator helps him to come to New York. Sam would like to meet there a mysterious beauty from last New Year's Eve again; it is Kim.

Criticism

The reviews of American critics fell from extremely negative. Metacritic has, based on 29 reviews, an average rating of 22 out of 100 points, and classifies the critics echo as "Generally unfavorable " one. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 116 reviews has even only a rating of 6%.

Roger Ebert criticized addition to the excessive product placement for Nivea skin cream especially that there would be nothing interesting to do for the nearly two dozen stars in the movie:

" New Year's Eve is a dreary plod through the sands of time until finally the load grain Has trickled through the hourglass of cinematic sludge. How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do? "

Something positive saw Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly critic of the movie. He forgave the note B and ruled:

" " New Year's Eve " is dunderheaded kitsch, but it's the kind of marzipan movie did can sweetly soak up a holiday evening. "

German critics rated the movie positively. The quality of each episode is very different and the film overall very shallow, but ultimately still entertaining:

" " Happy New Year " is a New Year's Comedy from the drawing board all the way to the pattern of his predecessor " Valentine's Day ". The individual episodes of star -studded ensemble film are very different in quality, individual highlights compensate for Misslungenes and the whole remains thanks to the large variety wealth always entertaining. "

" Garry Marshall succeeds almost effortlessly to interweave the various episodes together. But measured against that in any other night of the year expectations and disappointments are so close together, but the film is surprisingly shallow. "

The film was nominated for a 2012 Golden Raspberry Awards in the categories of Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Actress (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Worst Ensemble.

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