Why was this movie made?

Rating: 3/10 (19 July 2009)

First of all, for all the hoopla by some critics and film festival types this is not a very good movie. It really isn't.
The script lacks even the slightest insight to how relationships really work, but still tries to have its cake by having the Tom character make a big speech at the end of the film about how movies and pop songs screw up everyone's expectations of what love is.
I'll tell you what love isn't. An emotionally stunted man-boy trying to have a relationship with a girl who is most likely has a borderline personality disorder.
The film was not without it's charms, Gordon-Levitt was a very likable and engaging, the soundtrack was pleasant to listen to and the film had a handful of sitcom style "funny" lines. But if you've ever watched an episode or two of How I Met Your Mother or Big Bang Theory you've heard them all before.
Fortunately for the filmmakers, the festivals types who eat up this drivel refuse to watch popular television on principal and they will therefore think this film is original and clever.
But overall, the film dragged on forever, Zoe Deschannel (who I adore) looked old in the film and had almost nothing to do, and the little quirky visual bits were straight out of the Sundance film festival handbook.
Fox Searchlight will probably score a minor hit with this nonsense, but in ten years no one will remember this slight, immature little flick.