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A superstar cast stars in 'New Year's Eve': movie review (VIDEO)

( PG-13 )

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Set in New York City, 'New Year's Eve' has a superstar cast but a shopworn string of interlocking stories.

Andrew Schwartz/Warner Bros. Pictures/AP

In this film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Katherine Heigl, left, and Jon Bon Jovi are shown in a scene from "New Year's Eve."

By Peter Rainer Film critic

Dec. 08, 2011, 4:11 p.m. ET

Garry Marshall鈥檚 previous all-star theme movie, 鈥淰alentine鈥檚 Day,鈥� didn鈥檛 exactly become a holiday perennial. Undaunted, he鈥檚 back with 鈥淣ew Year鈥檚 Eve.鈥�

The cast, at least on paper, is formidable, if ill-used. Robert De Niro plays a tubed-up cancer patient, Halle Berry plays his nurse, Michelle Pfeiffer is a lovelorn, mousy office worker. Also turning up are Jessica Biel, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Jon Bon Jovi, Hilary Swank, and many others.

Katherine Fugate, who also wrote 鈥淰alentine鈥檚 Day,鈥� sets a score of interlocking scenarios in motion, all of them shopworn. The film is like one of those Robert Altman big-canvas movies minus the inspiration.

It does have my favorite blatant product plug, though. Featured prominently in the wide-angle shots of Times Square is a huge billboard for the new 鈥�Sherlock Holmes鈥� movie 鈥� like 鈥淣ew Year鈥檚 Eve,鈥� a Warner Brothers production. Grade:聽C- (Rated PG-13 for language, including some sexual references.)