A complete and utter load of rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (6 February 2003)

I saw this film on the advice of my boyfriend, who ranks it as one of his favourite movies ever. Now, we do usually have a very similar taste in films, but oh dear God I hated Empire Records!!
I could kinda tell i wouldn't like it from the video jacket, which makes a lot of fuss about the film's soundtrack, and this brought to memory a piece of advice I'd heard before which everyone should take heed of:
BEWARE OF MOVIES THAT VALUE A SOUNDTRACK HIGHLY IN THE TRAILER OR VIDEO SLEEVE - THEY ARE ALMOST ALWAYS RUBBISH
Oh how I wish I'd listened to this! I did try to like this movie for my boyfriend's sake, but unfortunately I found every character to be bland and undeveloped; the one day setting meant that plotting was thrown out of the window, indeed I'm not even sure that there was a plot; the dialogue was almost 99% cringe-worthy 'teenspeak'; for a comedy there were no laughs; and worst of all, the lauded soundtrack was appallingly thrown at the movie with no relevance to scenes.
Watch this film if... well, actually, just don't watch this film.