Happy New Year (2011)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | happy New Year |
| Original title | New Year's Eve |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Garry Marshall |
| script | Katherine Fugate |
| production |
Mike Karz , Garry Marshall, Wayne Rice |
| music | John Debney |
| camera | Charles Minsky |
| cut | Michael Tronick |
| occupation | |
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Happy New Year (Original Title: New Year's Eve ) is an American romantic comedy that premiered on December 8, 2011 in Germany . Directed by Garry Marshall and written by Katherine Fugate .
action
The episode film is about people who spend New Year's Eve in New York and have different connections to one another.
Claire organizes the annual balldrop in Times Square to start the countdown to the New Year. She receives support from the police officer Brendan. When the Times Square Ball threatens to stop working shortly before midnight, she has to bring back the long-time chief technician Kominsky. She had fired him a few weeks earlier. After a successful repair, Claire Kominsky returns the line as chief technician.
The successful singer Jensen also appears at a record label's New Year's Eve party, which is organized by the cook Laura. Laura was previously engaged to Jensen, but Jensen had doubts about the connection and left her before the wedding. Jensen regrets leaving Laura a year ago and wants to win her back. Laura tries to defend herself against her suppressed feelings for Jensen at the beginning, but has to admit that she still loves him. She learns that she only got the catering job on Jensen's recommendation. There is a debate in the kitchen. She gives him a second chance when he wants to cancel his planned tour because of her.
Ingrid, a shy employee of the record company, finally tries to put her good intentions into practice. The young bicycle courier Paul is supposed to help her, and in return she promises tickets for the record label's hip New Year's Eve party. Ingrid and Paul fulfill all of her new year's resolutions in one evening. After a successful job, Paul receives the tickets for the coveted New Year's party. He kisses Ingrid to fulfill the last point on her list. Since he can't give Randy the second ticket, he goes to the party with Ingrid.
Meanwhile, Stan Harris lies dying in a hospital near Times Square and makes his last wish. He would like to see the balldrop on the roof of the hospital and thus experience the New Year in Times Square one last time. Aimee, the nurse, helps him on her night shift. Claire is Harris' daughter and is visiting him for the last time in the hospital. She takes him out of the hospital unnoticed to show him the balldrop on the roof of the house. Both put their longstanding argument on hold. Sister Aimee meanwhile skypts with her boyfriend, who is stationed abroad as a soldier. Unfortunately, the two of them don't have more on New Year's Eve.
The New Year's Eve grouch Randy gets stuck in the elevator with the background singer Elise, which is why she threatens to miss her appearance as a background singer with Jensen. You are stuck in the elevator for hours. Elise gets Randy to have his own little party, almost resulting in a kiss. However, this is interrupted when the elevator starts moving again. Elise forgets her balance bracelet in the elevator. Randy takes it to Times Square and receives the longed-for kiss as a thank you. Since Jensen cancels his appearance in Time Square, Elise gets the opportunity to make her own appearance.
The Schwab family and the Byrne family compete in the maternity ward for the first birth of the year in New York, for which a $ 25,000 prize is advertised. Though the Byrnes have their baby first, they leave the bonus to the Schwabs by backing up their child's birth time.
Kim tries to find her daughter Hailey. Against her mother's wishes, she left the apartment on New Year's Eve to give her crush Seth the first kiss of the new year. Hailey sees that her crush is kissing someone else and falls crying into her mother's arms. Seth clears up the situation by mistake and kisses Hailey.
Sam has to give a speech at the party and remains lying in the car on the way there. Since all workshops are closed on New Year's Eve, he fears that he will not be there in time. The family of a tow company helps him get to New York. Sam arrives for the celebration in time and gives a short but emotional speech. He then wants to meet the mysterious beauty from last New Year's Eve again; it's Kim, Hailey's mother. At midnight he is at the meeting point to see Kim, who is not there. Just as he is about to leave, a carriage pulls up and Kim gets out of it. Happy to see each other again, they both hug each other with a kiss.
criticism
The ratings from American critics were extremely negative. Metacritic has, based on 29 reviews, an average rating of 22 out of 100 points and classifies the response from the critics as "Generally unfavorable". The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes even shows a rating of 6% based on 116 reviews.
In addition to the excessive product placement for Nivea skin cream, Roger Ebert complained above all that there was absolutely nothing interesting to do for the almost two dozen stars in the film:
"New Year's Eve is a dreary plod through the sands of time until finally the last 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? "
“ Happy New Year is a dreary trot through the sands of time until the last grain of cinematic mud finally trickles through the hourglass. How is it possible to gather two dozen stars in one film and not find anything interesting for them to do? "
Owen Gleiberman, critic of Entertainment Weekly , saw the film a little more positively . He awarded the grade B- and judged:
"New Year's Eve" is dunderheaded kitsch, but it's the kind of marzipan movie that can sweetly soak up a holiday evening. (“
" Happy New Year is moronic kitsch, but it's the kind of marzipan film that can sweeten a holiday evening. "
German critics rated the film more positively. The quality of the individual episodes is very different and the film overall is very shallow, but ultimately still entertaining:
"Happy New Year" is a New Year's Eve comedy from the drawing board, based on the model of its predecessor "Valentine's Day". The individual episodes of the star-studded ensemble film are of very different quality, individual highlights compensate for failures and the whole thing is always entertaining thanks to the great variety. "
“Garry Marshall manages to interweave the various episodes with almost no effort. But measured against the fact that expectations and disappointments are not so close together on any other night of the year, the film seems surprisingly shallow. "
Awards
The film was nominated in 2012 for a Golden Raspberry in the categories of Worst Film , Worst Director , Worst Screenplay , Worst Actress (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Worst Ensemble. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists awarded the ridiculous prize “Actresses who absolutely need a new agent” to all actresses in the film.
Rapper Common was nominated for Best Actor at the BET Awards 2012. Lea Michele was nominated for the Choice Movie Scene Stealer category at the Teen Choice Awards .
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- Happy New Year in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Happy New Year atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Happy New Year . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 587 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Happy New Year . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Happy New Year at metacritic.com, accessed December 13, 2011
- ↑ Happy New Year at rottentomatoes.com, accessed December 13, 2011
- ^ Happy New Year at rogerebert.suntimes.com, accessed December 13, 2011
- ↑ Happy New Year at ew.com, accessed on December 13, 2011
- ↑ Happy New Year at filmstarts.de, accessed on December 13, 2011
- ↑ Happy New Year at cinema.de, accessed on December 13, 2011