Nick and Norah - Good movie (and good God, no, I am not a NY-loving hipster.)
1. Michael Cera & Alexis Dziena are good actors and did a great job with the characters--totally likeable. (Although I definitely hope one day that M. Cera can do a different type of character.)
2. For a teen movie, pretty good. I would have liked it even more if I was still in high school.
3. Annoying NY scene. I get really aggravated by how so many movies, books, comics (EVERYTHING) is set in NY city. I really don't buy the whole "NY is the pinnacle of all things great" attitude. The only time I've explicitly seen Tampa in a movie is The Punisher--not very impressive. Well, there's that one dog racing scene in Ocean's 11, but no one knew it was St. Pete...
4. The banter was silly, but it's definitely watchable and actually cute.
5. I liked how they filmed the "sex scene". Blaring question: They didn't have sex as in coitus, right? I don't know, because they didn't show it. I just want to get that straight, before someone calls me a perv. But, the whole recording studio panning was definitely novel. (Afterthought: I thought straightedge people refrained from sex, but I guess I was wrong? According to wikipedia, that is hardliners. Confused...)
Overall, it was a cute, rewatchable movie. Higher caliber teen/high school movie. It definitely placed a little "awww" smirk on my face. I feel like high school movies made after my high school years were better than the ones during/before high school because I wish this movie was made when I was still in h.s. Instead, I was blessed with gems like Bring It On. groan.
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It says it's in St. Pete... And the circus scene was filmed here too, but the movie says it's in CA. Lie.
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