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 very cute love story Feb 24, 2010
really good story,i like that actress in it. price was to good to pass up to
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 Twee and gormless Feb 22, 2010
This film is excorable. Oh-so-way-too-clever, snappy dialogue delivered in a New Jersey heartbeat by the indulged children of indulged Jewish liberal parents. About a quarter of the way in, Norah makes it clear that she is harbouring something of a troubling secret as her "romance" with Nick goes through its ups and downs. It comes up two or three times, adding a modicum of drama. And this secret turns out to be? HER DAD OWNS ELECTRIC LADY RECORDING STUDIOS!!! You know, the type of experience that most teenagers can relate to...Oh, the shame!
Michael Cera: good in 'Juno' because his acting was perfect for a confused and deflated character. In this, he does the same trick and comes over as gormless. The music is awful-twee, contrived rubbish and not for the first time, Mark Mothersbaugh displays lousy judgement getting by involved in this mess. Plausability goes out the window more often than everyone squeals excitedly about the legendary, mysterious band "Where's Fluffy?" (teenagers getting into any bar or club venue they like, purchasing any beverage they like, driving any old way they like in NY at night, three wise, gay teens never having to suffer for their sexuality and a girl who remains determinedly drunk and ditzy no matter how many times she throws up, sleeps and has what would normally be frightening, sobering experiences). The whole thing just amounts to a cliched construct where there is little substance and even less empathy.
3 of 6 found the following review helpful:
More Animal House than Sixteen Candles Jan 02, 2010
I'd heard that this was a good film by several prominent reviewers and decided to spend the night with my wife (a huge fan of the genre from past years and John Hughes) watching the film via Netflix streaming. Unfortunately, what I ended up doing was apologizing to her for much of the film.
I enjoyed the budding relationship between Nick and Norah and their conversation, which I thought was spot on for a High School movie. What I disliked was everything else:
I disliked the disgusting barf scenes and the gum scenes are particularly stomach churning. Add the constant sexual references, including gay and deviant with scenes, crude language and emphasis on partying without the consequences evening out the treatment and I found that even for a High School romantic comedy I found this movie more Animal House than Sixteen Candles and a sad distraction from the relationship between the main characters.
I also disliked that the movie just didn't seem to go anywhere for most of the movie then in the last 10 minutes everything works out. Girl dumps slacker boy. Boy dumps slutty girl. Girl and boy get together. Girl gets what has always eluded her (in a mind-numbingly unrealistic scene). A tight bow tied on to a really loose package.
Overall, a film that misses when it really could have been a hit. I do not recommend this.
A Fun Movie About True Friendship, Moving on After Being Dumped and a Great Night Out! Dec 25, 2009
I'd never actually heard of this movie before seeing it on the shelf one day. I've always quite liked actor Michael Cera in the TV series Arrested Development and in other movies such as Superbad, so I thought I'd give it a go. I had never heard of the other actors in the film but they all play their parts really well as does Cera who granted does play a very similar nice and a bit nerdy guy character to his one in Superbad and other movies. This is a nice simple story, based on the same titled young adult novel by Rachel Cohn. We have a depressed Nick (Cera) not quite facing reality that his ex girlfriend Triss (Alexis Dziena), has dumped him, isn't a very nice person and isn't interested in the latest mixed burnt CD he has made for her. His best friends who he also plays in a band with are as loyal as any friends can ever be and want him to come play a gig with them to get over Triss. Oh did I mention the band has no drummer. Anyway by pure coincidence Nick's favourite band Where's Fluffy, an underground band that only ever plays spontaneous secret gigs is rumoured to be making an appearance in a club somewhere in New York. So with the enticement of tracking down and seeing the elusive Where's Fluffy, Nick decides to play the gig.
Unbeknownst to Nick, Norah (Kat Dennings), a fellow student in his ex's school and victim of her bullying, has been saving those burnt CDs Triss has been ridiculing and throwing in the bin. She is also a fan of Where's Fluffy and hopes to track down them down with her friend Caroline (Ari Graynor), who's putting it nicely a bit of a drunk. What follows is a film with a lot of funny moments, and demonstrations of absolute loyalty and friendship amongst Norah and Caroline as well as Nick and his band/friends. Where Nick and Norah's relationship ends up is a bit predictable yes, but the fun is in getting there! The drunk Caroline provides quite a few laughs as well, and incidentally if you don't think the gum thing would happen in real life then you're probably not old enough to be in nightclubs and such where you often see drunks do a lot worse and stupid things than that. A great character who doesn't have any lines but provides a lot of funny moments and is also the often mistaken for a taxi by drunks, is the yellow Yugo which is Nick's car.
This is a fun feel good film, check it out!
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This is the worst movie I've ever seen! Dec 08, 2009
This movie is meant for teenagers as the song by the The Who "Teenage Wasteland" which they are. I am an indie film director and producer and this is terrible the writing, the humor. all of it! the girl in the movie is down right nasty. vomits. drops her phone like a F-wit and picks it up (I'm so sure the phone will still work in a toilet of vomit) on top of that. she's grossed out in the beginning to get the phone out. but, no. she's not when she gets her gum she droped and puts it back into her mouth. NOBODY DOES THAT! STUPID AND LAME! glad Judd Apatow didn't direct it! this guy Phil should be fired.
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