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Member Name: adambrown400

Product:	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (DVD)
Date:	23/10/09 (18 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Witty

Disadvantages: Too knowing and quirky

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is another in a long glut of quirky films to come out of the US in the past couple of years. If you have seen 'Juno' or the recent 'Adventureland' then you will know the sort of direction that this film goes in.

The film concerns Nick (Michael Cera) and Norah (Kat Dennings) two high schoolers with mutual friends who one evening end up getting it together. Basically that's the plot of the film in a nutshell, not much more to say there.

Michael Cera can be a little irritating to begin with, if you have watched any of his recent work in films like Year One and Superbad, then you will understand that he has a very limited range. The geeky teenager act is going to be very hard for him to transfer in to more adult roles as he is starting to do now. Unless he wants to play a high school kid for the rest of his life, this may be a little limiting. He's a nice enough guy and the performance is very breezy and appears to have very little to it to make it standout, but there you go.

On the whole there seems to be such a huge glut of these kind of 'indie-geek-chic' films of late. Some are quite good (Adventureland, Juno) others seem to be so breezy by the end of the film it's almost impossible to remember anything that has happened in the preceding 90 minutes. This is probably due to the script having no real drama to speak of and a very wafer-thin plot.

I would have liked the film to have made more musical references, seeing as the majority if the film was about music hence the title. It didn't, but there were some amusing moments to keep the film bouncing along nicely.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was a distraction for me whilst I was ironing, nothing more. I came to film with nothing and I left with nothing, which is a little sad. This film is available now from amazon.co.uk for the bargain price of £4.88. A sure cure for insomnia.

Summary: zzzzz fodder