In the meantime Dr. Harrison Copeland (Patrick Dempsey) makes sure he’s covering the day from his concubine, so that he can spend some quality time with the official wife. Of course, as any gentleman would do, he does prepare some flower arrangements for them both. Bad karma makes him chose Reed’s flower shop for this and Reed is best friend with his lover.

Love is there for old guys too. Senior couple Edgar and Estelle (Shirley MacLaine) are celebrating many years together and do this with good perfume, flowers and a night out.

Young Edison, although still a kid, has got a serious crush on some girl and decides it’s the best moment to let her know about his true feelings. So he’s employing Reed too with a very important mission: take some flowers to the “woman” he loves.

In an airplane Captain Kate Hazeltine (Julia Roberts) counts the hours till she can be again with that someone special in her life. She’s an officer and she’d been away for the past 11 months.

Liz (Anne Hathaway) storms out of her boy-friend’s apartment since she’s almost late at work and, as soon as she’s on the street she answers the phone and starts a very disturbing sexual conversation with some guy with a Russian name. We later find out she’s been solving her financial issues by being a ‘sex call’ phone girl.

The only “normal” people who are not crazy with the event are Kara Monahan (Jessica Biel), who’s actually organizing a “I hate Valentine’s Day Party”, sportsman Sean Jackson (Eric Dane), Kelvin Moore (Jamie Foxx), a TV sports presenter who’s getting the task of covering the event and Paula Thomas (Queen Latifah).

And then it all goes wrong.

Proposals are rejected, old infidelities are confessed, new infidelities are found, preparations for the perfect sex get to a dead end, flowers are not being delivered on time etc. People break up for moronic reasons, the soon life shows them in love there’s more than bubbly champagne and flowers. And of course, because it’s a comedy in the end, everything sorta comes into place. The movie does offer some twists too, so you cannot really predict everything.

If you look at the cast, maybe you’re gonna have some high expectations, in the end there are some strong names in it. From this point of view the movie might under-deliver. On the other hand this is a comedy and no one claimed it should be more than that. There are enough funny situations to justify some good laughs too.

So, if you’re in for some cute pleasant story, with some good actors and some funny scenes too, you can make the “effort” to watch it. For two hours of entertainment, it surely does the job.

We can share our views together here. You can comment on my articles and recommend good movies I should have on my “to view” list.

In case you wonder …

My name is Ramona Iftode. You know me online as “dojo”. Let’s say it’s a personal “brand”. My web design firm is called Dojo Design so I played with this for quite a bit. When I don’t write about movies or God knows what in my blog here (and the others) I create unique designs for my clients. For the past 12 months at least I’ve worked intensely at designing blogs. So, if you like how this one looks and would love a new “facelift” for your  own site, you know who to call.

I am over 30 and, belive it or not, a woman. Working as a self-employed web designer allows for more time to watch movies and of course write about them. Don’t expect tens of articles a day, but one of my New Year’s resolutions would be to update the blog weekly (at least).

You’ll find here some old movies being reviewed, some of the new ones, even TV series I love or TV shows I have watched. The opinions here are of course personal and perfect, since it’s my blog. Kidding aside, I’d love discussing with you about movies and hope that, even if my opinions are perfect (we already established that), you’ll share your own views. The comments are open, so please don’t be shy.

Thank you for your time, see you on the blog.