Boasting a laundry list of big name actors and directors, this American reply to Paris je'Taime fell very short of the original, jumbling the format, and missing the mark by miles. Another notch on the stick for star-studded RomComs, this falls into many of the pitfalls that recent films have been subject to. For a film supposed to be about love, it felt more like a Coffee and Cigarettes series of conversations and random dialogue that occasionally mentioned the word 'love' or talked about sex. The back and forth flow of this film created an indistinct jumble of interactions, rather than a series of short films, leaving very few - if any - worthwhile mini-episodes. The dialogue was probably the sole saving grace of this film, providing the viewer with interesting exchanges - mostly on street corners - but nothing felt distinctly New York about any of them. The whole film very well could have been made anywhere, like a coffee shop, perhaps? There were last-minute twists to almost all the films, a major flaw found often in short films, even more rampant in Hollywood, which is obviously where this film came from. I had been excited about this film for months, and was absolutely disappointed after being so impressed and inspired by the French original. Je n'ai pas aimé New York, I Love You.
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2/16/2010
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