"Loneliness is underrated."

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2010)

Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a twenty-something greeting card writer, recalls the 500 days in which he loved a girl named Summer (Zooey Deschanel). Though she made it clear she was a free spirit and didn't want a boyfriend, the two coworkers became involved and then parted, reunited briefly to be parted again.
This much talked-about romantic dramedy is fairly lightweight stuff, aimed at the teen and early-twenties set. To my older eyes, it seemed a bit of fluff, a forgettable reverie, some bittersweet moments on the way to growing up. The episodic movie is broken into individual "days," with each scene lasting only a minute or two; it soon became clear there wouldn't be time to develop deep feelings and each vignette felt cursory and sometimes even corny. Although Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel are both appealing, there was no chemistry between them and no connection with me as a viewer.
I suppose it's pleasant enough if you like lovesick boy meets girl-type flicks, but it just wasn't engaging enough for me.