A plodding mediocrity with an almost mercenary adherence to formula.
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06/30/09
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.
Theatrical Release:Jul 3, 2009 Limited
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
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Reviews for I Hate Valentine's Day
A contrived, juvenile and painfully unfunny romantic comedy.
07/03/09
Put it this way: Children who see this film at an impressionable age risk inhibiting their social growth.
07/01/09
I found it to be really one note. This is not authentic modern courtship.
07/06/09
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
Nia Vardalos wrote, directed and stars in this clunky, unfunny and plodding mess. She doesn't write dialogue, she writes shtick. Her direction seems awkward and amateurish, her acting is more like mugging.
07/02/09
Given the inevitable response to this equally regrettable rom-com, she can expect to loathe Independence Day, too.
07/02/09
Vardalos calls her film "the ultimate indie experiment," and if that's what is meant by ham-fisted pacing, writing, and acting, this is as ultimate and as indie as it gets.
07/01/09
Top CriticAn indie romantic comedy even worse than most of the bigger-budgeted but almost invariably rotten Hollywood examples of the genre.
07/02/09
Is 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
A big fat Greek flop!
07/10/09
A charmless rom-com about an exhaustingly vivacious florist.
07/10/09
Top CriticWhat 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
Top CriticVardalos doesn't write dialogue; she writes shtick...the whole thing is one long riff, with few laughs and an inevitable destination.
06/30/09
An unspeakable nadir in the career of its writer-director-star, My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Nia Vardalos.
07/03/09
All 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 CriticThe 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
I Hate Valentine's Day is a horror show masquerading as a romantic comedy. Maybe Vardalos is just in the wrong line of work.
06/30/09
Top CriticYou 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
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