Cliché, overrated, but not terrible

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2016)

This review contains spoilers for not only 500 Days of Summer but the movies Her, and Midnight in Paris, as well. The passage with the spoilers will be in all CAPS, so if you don't want these films spoiled, avoid that section.
By most reviews I've seen, 500 Days of Summer is considered to be criminally underrated and deserves more attention. It happens a lot with me that a film is called underrated so many times that when I finally get to seeing it, it becomes overrated, in the case of Dredd, Edge of Tomorrow, and now 500 Days of Summer. It's a very generic film with attempts at trying to hide it. We've all seen the character types before. The antisocial male protagonist who meets the outgoing, different-from-every-other girl he falls in love with; Zooey Deschanel having gotten this character sown to a science, it being really the only character type she plays. People often say that this film is different from other romantic (comedy) films because it takes place from the perspective of the male in the relationship, but many others do that, (Her, and Midnight in Paris, for example).
ANOTHER ARGUMENT IS THAT THE MAIN CHARACTER AND HIS LOVE INTEREST DON'T END UP TOGETHER IN THE END. AND AGAIN, MIDNIGHT IN Paris AND HER DO THIS AS WELL, AND BETTER. MIDNIGHT IN Paris EVEN HAVING ALMOST THE EXACT SAME ENDING, IN THAT THE LEAD FINDS A DIFFERENT GIRL AND THE FILM ENDS HAPPILY WITH HIM AND HER, THAT BEING MY ONLY REAL PROBLEM WITH MIDNIGHT IN Paris.
The only thing about this film that I haven't seen before is the nonlinear plot, which keeps things relatively interesting, but that may have been done before, and I don't know it, as I don't seek films of this genre too often for fear of ending up with one like this. In the end, I don't think 500 Days of Summer is a bad movie, but not very good, either. It's not very original, but I can see it tried to be, and I acknowledge that. I'm giving this a positive rating, still, because of that and the fact that it was still entertaining and occasionally pretty funny.