The movie started with a song by The Replacements playing. At that moment I said to myself “My review will simply be ‘This movie started with a song by The Replacements. ‘Nuff said.’”
I wish that could have panned out, but it didn’t. There was another Replacements song, some Black Flag posters in the background, other great music and references to great music, and Twilight girl wearing a Husker Du shirt. Oh, and there was talk about The Master And Margarita. I can get behind all of these things, but I can’t get behind this movie much.
I spent half the movie waiting for some sort of a story or plot to manifest before I realized that there wasn’t going to be one at all. James falling in love with Emily does not count as a story. There was just nothing going on this movie. I actually want to slightly compare it to what Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist would have been like if they just hung out in one place the entire night and didn’t do anything at all except drink and smoke pot.This thing just never really picked up any steam.
I mean, sure I could draw some deeper meaning and crap from the whole premise of the movie (virgin graduates college, gets screwed by his parents and has to get a job so he can afford more school instead of having the awesome summer that he had planned, and then falls in love with a girl…blah blah blah), but this wasn’t a movie that I wanted to get something from. I just wanted entertainment. And, to be honest, it wasn’t so much a bad movie as it was a disappointing movie. There were some funny parts to it that I laughed at, but I really can’t imagine wanting to go see this again.
The only other thing that I have to say is why the hell does Kristen Stewart (Twilight girl) ALWAYS look strung out?
Rating: C-
