The selling point for overpriced high school yearbooks is to remember how the years gifted us. This includes anything from the awkward phase to the bare essentials that identified how we would construct ourselves for four years. That is exactly what the movie Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist was like. It was a reflection of identifying the self in one another, a premature look back into who we once were. The dilemma isn’t surrounded by the choice of music in said playlist, but by the hardships Nick (Michael Cera) experiences after making numerous playlists to win back the affection of his ex-girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena). One of Tris’s classmates Norah (Kat Dennings) finds the mixtapes and forms a crush on Nick without any formal introduction. The story turns into a hunt for Nick and his band mates to find a secret show in one of the boroughs, while Norah tags along and loses her friend, who spends the entire movie voluntarily drunk.In the beginning there is a scene referencing a sketched notebook outlining bands like The National, Vampire Weekend and We Are Scientists. While that is a reflection of the soundtrack, the idea comes off tacky and looks like the beginning of a bad kids’ movie. The typography follows last years hit, Juno, which also included Michael Cera, although Juno might garner better praise. Michael Cera proved himself in the hit Superbad last year as well, but seems to produce the same character in Juno and then once again in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. It shows that Cera is one-dimensional, and although it’s appealing now, it doesn’t necessarily mean he will make it too much longer. Than again, neither did most of the Brat Pack in the 1980s.There is an instance in the movie, particularly a car scene between Nick and Norah, that seems premature and forced. It entails the idea of being Straight Edge, which for whatever reason was thrown into the movie as a jab at today’s music culture and the influence of making the commitment to not drink on said culture. I found it unappealing and stereotypical because it didn’t have a place in the movie. The characters are immature, and the humor leaves much to be desired. There isn’t a fire in Dennings other than her pre-teen Alanis attitude that seems to be the only thing carrying her role through the movie. There isn’t much accordance between the score of the movie and what the movie entails.
Nick and Norah is the dummy’s guide for how to be a hipster in the middle of a teenage crisis, whether it is the playlist approach to break ups, skipping curfew or embracing of underage drinking. The movie gives the unrealistic depiction of how the average kid embraces the Manhattan culture and the stop made in Brooklyn.While the movie is eventful and has a knack for the mind of a high school student, it doesn’t measure up to its title and certainly doesn’t have enough consistency to be the next generations Dazed and Confused. It might be a movie to catch on college night, but don’t go running to theater to see this one.
The selling point for overpriced high school yearbooks is to remember how the years gifted us. This includes anything from the awkward phase to the bare essentials that identified how we would construct ourselves for four years. That is exactly what the movie Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist was like. It was a reflection of identifying the self in one another, a premature look back into who we once were. The dilemma isn’t surrounded by the choice of music in said playlist, but by the hardships Nick (Michael Cera) experiences after making numerous playlists to win back the affection of his ex-girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena). One of Tris’s classmates Norah (Kat Dennings) finds the mixtapes and forms a crush on Nick without any formal introduction. The story turns into a hunt for Nick and his band mates to find a secret show in one of the boroughs, while Norah tags along and loses her friend, who spends the entire movie voluntarily drunk.In the beginning there is a scene referencing a sketched notebook outlining bands like The National, Vampire Weekend and We Are Scientists. While that is a reflection of the soundtrack, the idea comes off tacky and looks like the beginning of a bad kids’ movie. The typography follows last years hit, Juno, which also included Michael Cera, although Juno might garner better praise. Michael Cera proved himself in the hit Superbad last year as well, but seems to produce the same character in Juno and then once again in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. It shows that Cera is one-dimensional, and although it’s appealing now, it doesn’t necessarily mean he will make it too much longer. Than again, neither did most of the Brat Pack in the 1980s.There is an instance in the movie, particularly a car scene between Nick and Norah, that seems premature and forced. It entails the idea of being Straight Edge, which for whatever reason was thrown into the movie as a jab at today’s music culture and the influence of making the commitment to not drink on said culture. I found it unappealing and stereotypical because it didn’t have a place in the movie. The characters are immature, and the humor leaves much to be desired. There isn’t a fire in Dennings other than her pre-teen Alanis attitude that seems to be the only thing carrying her role through the movie. There isn’t much accordance between the score of the movie and what the movie entails.
Nick and Norah is the dummy’s guide for how to be a hipster in the middle of a teenage crisis, whether it is the playlist approach to break ups, skipping curfew or embracing of underage drinking. The movie gives the unrealistic depiction of how the average kid embraces the Manhattan culture and the stop made in Brooklyn.While the movie is eventful and has a knack for the mind of a high school student, it doesn’t measure up to its title and certainly doesn’t have enough consistency to be the next generations Dazed and Confused. It might be a movie to catch on college night, but don’t go running to theater to see this one.
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