Romantic Movies 2011
Print Will you find romance in 2011? Follows are 10 biggest and best romantic movies to be screend in 2011, featuring pure love or romantic-comedy.
1) No Strings Attached
Young people these days are quicker to jump into bed than they are to date. A guy (Kutcher) and girl (Portman) try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it’s not long before they learn that they want something more. This sort of generic movie premise is a step down for Portman, but business as usual for Kutcher. The director is Ivan Reitman, whose last three movies were My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Evolution and Six Days Seven Nights. Pray the movie does well, as it will help his case for directing Ghostbusters III.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Cary Elwes, Kevin Kline, Olivia Thirlby
Director: Ivan Rietman
Release Date: 21 January 2011
2) Just Go With It
A plastic surgeon (Sandler (really?)), romancing a much younger schoolteacher (Decker), enlists his loyal assistant (Aniston) to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant’s kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives. This is a remake of a Bollywood film. Nicole Kidman is fourth on the cast list and not even in the trailer – her career is on the skids. Expect the usual Sandler romantic-comedy shenanigans, and if he doesn’t end up with Aniston I’ll eat my hat.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman
Director: Denis Dugan
Release Date: 11 February 2011
3) The Adjustment Bureau
Sci-fi romance about a smooth-talking congressman (Damon) who seems destined for national political stardom. When he meets a beautiful ballet dancer (Blunt) he discovers there is a force determined to keep them from becoming involved. Fate says they were never supposed to have met and mysterious old men in hats act as cockblockers. The movie’s first time director wrote The Bourne Ultimatum and Ocean’s 12. Damon and Blunt are both sharp actors so they should be able to craft something thoughtful, let’s hope the chemistry is there – this is the second romantic lead of Damon’s career, after the poorly received All The Pretty Horses. Also, this doesn’t have the sexiest title in the world.
Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Terence Stamp, John Slattery, Anthony Ruivivar, Anthony Mackie.
Director: George Nolfi
Release Date: 4 March 2011
4) Red Riding Hood
Romantic-gothic-horror take on the legend of Red Riding Hood. A young woman (Seyfried) is in love with a brooding outsider (Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry a wealthy suitor (Irons). She’s planning to run away with him when she learns her older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the forest surrounding their village. As the death toll rises with each moon, she begins to suspect that the wolf could be someone close to her. From the director of Twilight, expect this to have a harder edge.
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Release Date: 11 March 2011
5) Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre (Wasikowska, Alice In Wonderland) goes out into the world to become a governess. In her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the cold master of the house, Mr. Rochester (Fassbender). Jane and her employer grow close, but could Mr. Rochester’s terrible secret be about to destroy their happiness forever? From the U.S. director of acclaimed South American poverty film Sin Nombre. The trailer tries to make this look like The Others or something, which is misleading.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Release Date: 11 March 2011
6) Beastly
A retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in New York which focuses on a handsome man with an evil streak (Pettyfer), who disrespects a witch in his class (Mary-Kate Olson, naturally) and is transformed into a grotesque monster. Can he be a better person and find true love with a new girl (Hudgens)? It’s based on this book, which has a beast of the hairy variety. The movie make-up is pretty revolting – Not sure I’d want to look at open wounds for 90 minutes.
Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer, Mary Kate Olsen, Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Daniel Barnz
Release Date: 18 March 2011
7) Water For Elephants
A veterinary student (Pattinson) is put in charge of the animals at a circus during the Great Depression. Among them is an un-trainable elephant, who’s the great hope for the third-rate travelling show. Soon he falls for a former circus performer turned horse trainer (Witherspoon), who’s married to the charismatic and twisted animal trainer (Waltz). This is based on the beloved novel and comes from the director of I Am Legend and Constantine. To put the age difference of the romantic leads in perspective, Pattinson was cast as Witherspoon’s son in 2004′s Vanity Fair.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Reese Witherspoon
Director: Francis Lawrence
Release Date: 15 April 2011
8) L.O.L.: Laughing Out Loud
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, Movie-Moron and Facebook, Lola (Miley Cyrus) is navigating the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship. When her mom (Demi Moore) “accidentally” reads her racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown. Cue ‘hilarious’ and ‘heartfelt’ coming of age moments between mom and daughter, as daughter tries to nail Adam Sevani from the Step Up movies. This is a remake of the Belgian teen comedy-romance (the trailer for which didn’t have a single laugh in it). Same director is doing the remake.
Starring: Miley Cyrus, Demi Moore, Adam Sevani, Ashley Greene, Thomas Jane
Director: Lisa Azuelos
Release Date: 22 April 2011
9) Prom
Intersecting stories unfold at one high school as the big dance approaches; For Nova (Teegarden), it’s a battle of wills as she finds herself drawn to the guy who gets in the way of her perfect prom (McDonell). Fellow seniors (Chang and Nixon) harbour secrets, while others face all the insecurity and anticipation that surrounds one of high school’s most seminal events. From the director of American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and the Amanda Bynes-starrer Sydney White. The cast are all unknowns. Expect harmless teen fluff that’s a long way short of John Hughes, and a nagging feeling that this would have worked better as a documentary.
Starring: Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, Yin Chang, De’Vaughn Nixon
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Release Date: 29 April 2011
10) This Means War
Romantic-action-comedy about two lifelong best friends (Pine, Hardy) who fall in love with the same woman (Witherspoon) and wage an epic city-wrecking battle against each other to win her. The script has gone through various incarnations over the last 10 years and it’s not clear yet if the men are both still playing spies. The unfairly maligned McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation) is directing. Tom Hardy’s part was originally offered to Seth Rogen, which would have presented much less of a dilemma for a woman. Great cast, fun concept.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Til Schweiger
Director: McG
Release Date: TBC June 2011
