Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Love the Gays!
Franz Patrick - wrote on 11/25/2008
Even though Michael Cera plays the same type of character (”Superbad,” “Juno”) in pretty much every movie, I love him for it because he’s the master of awkward teen comedy. He has great comedic timing and he always gets his audience to care for his character in under twenty minutes. This film is about the adventures of Cera and Kat Dennings in one night–from finding the drunken Ari Graynor, dealing with the ex-girlfriend Alexis Dziena, having good fun with the gays (Aaron Yoo, Rafi Gavron, Jonathan B. Wright), to attending a “Where’s Fluffy” concert. If one looks at the overall picture, it may not amount to much because it’s directed more toward high school and college students, but it’s undeniably cute and has its genuinely funny moments (that Ellen Degeneres bit …
Rating of
3/4
Almost, but not quite
kcvidkid - wrote on 10/22/2008
A cute movie, but lacking that little extra "something" to make it great. Perhaps I'm not the target audience?
I just think back to the movies of MY teenage years. I mean, has anything ever come close to a "Sixteen Candles" or "The Breakfast Club"? In my memory, those were amazing films! And they made lasting impressions on me and my peers. Do today's youngsters have the same reaction to this one?
If so, that's great. Because there have been far worse teenage comedies. But I don't relate to the... "mentality" of these characters. First of all, I couldn't get past the fact that high school seniors are staying out all night in New York City. Are they even of legal age to drink? (A major plot point revolves around a girl who always gets drunk.) Where are their parents? Is …
Rating of
2/4
Slow. A Little Too Slow.
LeopardExplosion - wrote on 10/05/2008
Well, I wasn't very excited to see this movie, Sure i wasn't dissapointed, but I was thinking more along the lines of Blindness or Religulous, but sadly, the theatre was not showing either of the two movies. So I decided to give Nick and Norah a chance.
Im aware this movie was made after the best selling teen novel of the same name, and it shows because movies based on novels usually just don't pan out like the book, in order to fit everything in and not well ruin it for everybody. Throughout the film there are many plotholes and such, which slowed the movie down more than Cera's damned Ugo car.
Nick and his band are performing a gig at a small nyc club, when Norah and her friends show up for the party, and in desperate situations, Norah gets Nick to go along with the whole thing …
