New Year's Eve

Eve’s Enticing Temptation Is Not Appealing
New Year’s Eve, PG-13, *1/2, Hillary Swank, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeffier, Jon bon Jovi, Zac Efron, Ashton Kutcher. Warner Brothers film. Director Garry Marshall. Length 118 minutes.

We are all tempted to attend New Year’s Eve parties with the expectations of fun and frolic. Forgetting the old year and looking forward to the next three-hundred sixty-five days.
Taking place on New Year’s Eve this movie progresses slowly along the ledge of entertainment but falls rapidly with dull dialogue and story - only to bring a few moments of laugh out loud hilarity.
The movie is set in the Big Apple as everyone prepares to watch the shinny sphere drop at midnight signifying a new beginning. For some reason people enjoy watching the giant sparkling sphere drop to symbolize the old year going out and the new year arriving.
Apparently, the entire cast of the movie needs a new start. From lost relationships, to disappointing jobs, new born babies, to death just around the corner, the viewer will watch individuals looking for a new launch.
One couple is trapped in an elevator long enough to decide they like each other. Randy (Ashton Kutcher) is trapped with a beautiful woman who must get to the party on time, because she is scheduled to sing.
Stan (Robert DeNiro) is in the hospital with a lot of regrets from his past. He also would like to watch the sphere drop. Of course, it is against hospital rules to allow him to go to the roof and view the spectacle. Aimee (Halle Berry) is a nurse in love with a soldier on duty overseas.
Claire (Hillary Swank) is in charge of the sphere dropping at the right moment in Time’s Square. Yes, she is having mechanical troubles trying to get the sphere to cooperate and behave - so it will travel to the top of the platform and the party will be on time.
Kim (Sarah Jessica Parker) is a business lady who is having difficulties with her teenage daughter Hailey (Abigail Breslin). Abigail was in “Little Miss Sunshine.” Kim does not want her daughter to be in Time’s Square with high school friends and of course a boyfriend who wants to kiss her.
Jensen (Jon Bon Jovi) is going to sing and perform for the New Year’s Eve party. He disappointed Laura (Katherine Heigl) last year. Now the singer is back to apologize and try to make things right. Where or when do we need a certain place or time to make things right with love? New Year’s Eve seems to be the best time, and New York is one of the best places.
Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer) is tired of her job and the things she has not done in her life. She has a bucket list so to speak. She quits her job, meets Paul (Zac Efron) a young boy. He tries to cheer her up, and takes on the responsibility of helping with her bucket list. Of course, she is going to give him some tickets for a vacation.
The absolute funniest parts of the movie happen with Seth Meyers and Jessica Biel. They play a young couple about to have a baby. At the hospital they meet (Sarah Paulson) and (Til Schweiger) another couple ready to have a baby. It seems they both want to be the first to deliver seconds after the sphere drops.
The scenes with Seth Meyers and Jessica Biel are the funniest in the entire movie. With three or four laugh out loud lines, the audience gets their reward for enduring this fiasco.
The New Year seems to give everyone a fresh start. If we are so disappointed with our existence why can’t we just change anytime during the year instead of waiting until New Year’s Eve? Instant gratification seems like a better idea to me. As a college professor told me once about my study habits, “Now is the time.”