Again goes to reinforce that the key to a good movie is not the gazillion $s sunk into special effects but soul. Kooky characters tied together in a simple identifiable storyline, dealing with day to day situations in their own kooky way create magic. Its a movie about one NY night in the town, where the average-joe heartbroken guy who got dumped by a high and mighty mean heartless shrew vixen virago, gets the sweet super-nice super-pretty super-rich girl who likes him for who he is. Michael Cera in Arrested Development, Superbad and Juno kicked ass, and he is completely on target here as Mr. Average Joe. He typifies the awkward, nerdy, not-so-much-of-a-megadude guy, the guy that your average joe can identify with, but who eventually gets the nice girl, unlike the average joe who by definition is average, and thus does not get the nice girl but the average girl, as if he did not get the average girl but got the nice girl he would no longer be an average joe but an above-average joe, and which means he would no longer identify with Nick and thus would not be part of this discussion, which concludes my long winded point that never seems to end and keeps going on and on and on, gosh this is a long sentence, if it goes on any longer it might be the longest sentence ever, but shit it just ended.
Great nighttime drive arounds of New York, and the music, love it. Really sets the tone for the movie.
Great nighttime drive arounds of New York, and the music, love it. Really sets the tone for the movie.
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thanks..
just finished watching the movie and stumbled here. Cera was awesome in AD and has ended up doing similar roles. as long as the movies continue to be funny who cares.
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