Offbeat rom-com

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2019)

This review contains spoilers.
500 Days of Summer is a romantic-comedy movie that premiered in 2009. The movie is directed by Marc Webb. The movie is written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. The movie stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Zooey Deschanel. The movie uses a non-linear narrative that unfolds across its 95 minute running time. The movie is about a romantic engagement across the 500 days that the two are involved. The movie has the audience discover how the relationship collapsed.
500 Days of Summer is an energetically directed movie. This movie has a fun style across its running time. Marc Webb does a good job with the direction in this movie. It provides an interesting retrospective into what the character of Tom Hansen is thinking when he reminisces about Summer. There are many fun stylized and fantastical scenes in this movie that is played straight by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This adds much to the movie's lightning pace and it makes the movie easy to follow from an emotional point of view.
500 Days of Summer is a rather basic movie. Aside from its unique presentation, the movie has a generic plot. 500 Days of Summer wants to utilize this to improve the overall movie experience. If the audience looks past this, they see a rather generic movie about a relationship and a breakup. The relationship is still interesting at times and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel do a great job in their roles. It is the case that the movie does not do a great job with the overall plot.
I would recommend '500 Days of Summer.'
Grade: B