I give a pass to sappy rom-coms that actually try, rather than cobble together a pseudo-ripoff of something that's already successful. Valentine's Day is full of people I like in other movies, and a director that seems like a helluva nice guy to work with, but the movie doesn't know what it wants to be. The central story belongs to a florist played by Ashton Kutcher and his long-time best friend who is destined to be his True Love (as portrayed by Jennifer Garner).

When an extended amount of time is spent with them, it's jarring to abruptly cut to some other thread that is weighted less in terms of investment. Even if you hate it, at least Love Actually manages to do a few things right, like keep its myriad characters on equal footing. It accomplishes this by not spending too much time with any one grouping so as to offset one pairing as "the leads". Valentine's Day starts out doing this and then goes the other direction. You can't have it both ways.

The pair of featurettes included on the Blu-ray aren't terribly enlightening, but the blooper reel is put together pretty well, so there's that. The deleted scenes are fun to watch with the intros from the director. For kicks, I started the Garry Marshall commentary track. A few minutes in, I decided I would have enjoyed myself more had I been listening to Marshall the entire time. He gets that the movie isn't high art, saying things like "look at all these stars. where else do you get all this, huh? Valentine's Day, that's where." "Watching Valentine's Day with Uncle Garry" is $24.99 on Blu-ray and is also available on DVD, on-demand, and so on.