New Year's Eve.

Director: Garry Marshall

Release Date: 8th December 2011 (UK)

New Year's Eve has been released in our cinemas just in time to excite fans for the upcoming New Year's. We meet many different characters, all with their own heart-warming stories. We learn through-out how they are intertwined and linked to one another in different ways.

With a bucket-load of celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker, for the fashion fans, Robert DeNiro, for the Taxi Driver fans, Lea Michele, for the Glee fans, a wide-variety of experienced  actresses Hilary Swank, Jessica Biel, Michelle Pfeiffer and for all the fans with a soft-spot Zac Efron, you would not be disappointed, despite the fact he has lost his luscious locks!

However, like the films prequel Valentine's Day, personally I found the film predictable. Katherine Heigl annoyingly is a talented actress but she consistently plays the same character. Hopeless in love and waiting to be saved, arguably she is good at doing so but I hoped to see her branch out slightly. Lea Michele, famous from Glee, had a singing part. You can argue, she is good. But instead of it being uplifting and romantic it felt again predictable, cheesy and quite embarrassing. In comparison, Robert DeNiro plays an bed-ridden old man whose life is filled with regrets. He is dying from cancer and wants to make through the year. Having supported DeNiro from his early career, and his performances in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Taxi Driver and even his newer roles such as Meet The Fockers and Stardust it is obvious his acting skills are extremely diverse. His story is heart-warming and sweet, with the element of surprise which Marshall does very well.

Each of the characters members of the audience can relate too, and through fans from the previous film, it has a lot to 'live up to' somewhat, through that the romantic comedy value is there, it is an easy-viewing fun film to watch without thinking too much, with light-hearted jokes involved to make you laugh throughout, so it scores points for that. However, award winning? Maybe, maybe not. Personally it is uplifting and sweet, would I suggest seeing it? If you like rom-coms and romantic films, yeah. However, just a warning you do not see Efron half naked, he does ride a motor-bike though...

RATING: 6/10