(500) Days of Summer was a nice surprise of a summer relationship movie

Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2009)

Today, I watched this indie rom-com with my sister before she goes back to her home in Maryland and my best friend who works at this movie theatre showing this film which as a result we all got to see for free. My theatre friend thought it was just okay while my sister loved it while I mostly liked it. There's plenty of amusing scenes between the leads Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel not to mention many heartbreaking ones too. One of the most entertaining ones was the Hall and Oates "You Make My Dreams" number that Gordon-Levitt and others dance to with an animated bird that surprised me. Part of me thought Joseph's conversations with that little girl was a bit pretentious. Still, the back and forth of many sequences and the way things end up is enough for me to recommend (500) Days of Summer. P.S. Once again, it's nice to see Clark Gregg outside of his regular role in "The New Adventures of Old Christine".