The critically-panned New Year's Eve: A roundup of jokes

Garry Marshall's new movie may boast big names, from Robert De Niro to Katherine Heigl, but critics are laughing at the star-studded film, not with it

Critics are panning the star-studded "New Year's Eve" as being little more than a two-hour infomercial for Times Square.
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New Year's Eve, the ensemble rom com from director Garry Marshall (Valentine's Day), hits theaters Friday, and it's not getting much love from critics. Indeed, the vast majority are panning the film, which stars a laundry list of talent, including Robert De Niro, Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Ashton Kutcher, and Sarah Jessica Parker. The movie features a number of interwoven melodramas all taking place, as the title suggests, on the last night of the year. Critics have ripped the movie's jokes as corny and unfunny; the scathing reviews themselves, however, are pretty amusing. Here, a sampling:

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